Explore Tacking through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like baste or basting. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Tacking meaning
present participle and gerund of tack
Using Tacking
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of tack
- Useful related words include: baste, basting, stitch, tack.
- In the example corpus, tacking often appears in combinations such as: tacking on, by tacking, tacking the.
Context around Tacking
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 8 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tacking
- In this selection, "tacking" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, citation, cross, argentina, angle, cases and duel stand out and add context to how "tacking" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a cross tacking duel between and atc to tacking cases of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tacking" sits close to words such as abstention, acadiana and actuarial, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tacking
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
This forced an expensive relocation to Argentina, tacking millions onto the budget. (12 words)
Then, chaos ensued as the juniors batted around, tacking on four more runs. (13 words)
Salzburg’s aggressive tacking and high-pressure game prevented Bayern from settling, however. (13 words)
As more evidence mounts of a terrifying attack on the colony, the Director's Cut helps cut the tension a bit by tacking on a scene where Hudson and Vasquez's motion tracker goes off, leading them into a room with a small hamster in a cage. (47 words)
This angle is half of the tacking angle and defines one side of a 'no-go zone' into the wind, in which a vessel cannot sail directly. citation Tacking is essential when sailing upwind. (34 words)
On Tuesday, a federal appeals court cleared the way for his class-action lawsuit alleging that restaurants at Ritz-Carlton hotels in Florida didn’t give proper notice before tacking on automatic tips. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
This angle is half of the tacking angle and defines one side of a 'no-go zone' into the wind, in which a vessel cannot sail directly. citation Tacking is essential when sailing upwind.
But Coventry threw their bodies on the line, blocking and tacking in and around the box.
Then, chaos ensued as the juniors batted around, tacking on four more runs.
The Union ministry of home affairs has an Anti Trafficking Cell (ATC) to tacking cases of human trafficking.
This home, a short walk from the Tacking Point Lighthouse and Lighthouse Beach, is rented out.
The first four boats away had a cross tacking duel between them and there were a number of close calls.
This forced an expensive relocation to Argentina, tacking millions onto the budget.
We teach them as much as we can - like handling, safety, nutrition, tacking, and the basics of riding.
As more evidence mounts of a terrifying attack on the colony, the Director's Cut helps cut the tension a bit by tacking on a scene where Hudson and Vasquez's motion tracker goes off, leading them into a room with a small hamster in a cage.
On Tuesday, a federal appeals court cleared the way for his class-action lawsuit alleging that restaurants at Ritz-Carlton hotels in Florida didn’t give proper notice before tacking on automatic tips.
Salzburg’s aggressive tacking and high-pressure game prevented Bayern from settling, however.
As written, is a work of excess, and playing to rather than tacking away from that weakness only serves to make it seem dated.
He’s under contract with the Cowboys for two more years since he was a first-round pick, which gave the team the option of tacking a fifth year onto his deal.
Tacking on an encore of “Dynamite,” AEW’s series premiere drew 1.8 million total viewers, according to Nielsen’s Live + Same Day ratings metric.
The initiative caps Washington vehicle tabs at $30 across the state, eliminating the authority of local governments to collect revenue by tacking additional fees onto car tabs.
This will supplement the run game, play into Texas strengths in the passing game, and take advantage of the Sooner’s issues with tacking this season.
Three separate federal courts — in Manhattan, Maryland and California — have ruled that the Commerce Department violated federal procedural law and the Constitution in hastily tacking the citizenship question onto the census last year.
Beginning this summer, when Rauner vetoed three immigration-related bills and started making noises about illegal immigration causing unemployment, he has been tacking to the right.
Donnelly has angered some Democrats by tacking to the right in recent weeks and embracing some of Trump’s pet priorities, such as building a border wall with Mexico.
He argued tacking on more classroom space down the road would push the project closer to $30 million.
Common combinations with tacking
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- tacking on 11×
- by tacking 4×
- tacking the 4×
- the tacking 3×
- tacking is 3×
- and tacking 3×
- tacking point 3×
- tacking to 3×
- tacking angle 2×
- tacking and 2×