White clouds sail like ships on the ocean.

Meaning: This sentence is comparing clouds to ships. It's saying that the clouds are moving across the sky in a similar way that ships move across the ocean.

Choice of Words: Clouds are masses of tiny water droplets or ice crystals in the sky. Sail means to move across water in a boat or ship. Ocean is a large body of salt water. When you put them together, it's like saying the clouds are moving across the sky like ships are moving across the ocean.

Alternative Expressions

Related Expressions

• Ships sail across seas.
• Clouds sailed sky like white ships.
• Clouds sail above, like cotton.
• Sailboats sail on the ocean water.
• Clouds sailed the sky like ships.
• Fluffy clouds sailed across the blue sky like graceful ships.
• Clouds sailed like ships.
• Clouds sail through the sky.
• Clouds sail across the sky.
• Clouds sail across the blue sky.