- present tense form of maintain (3rd person singular).
maintains
Example Sentences
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The catamarans are powered by mainsails that look and perform like airplane wings.
From Washington Times • May 25, 2017
The topsails furl within the masts, and the mainsails furl into the Rondal carbon fiber booms.
From Time Magazine Archive
The international championship for star boats�slim, 22-ft. sloops with tall Marconi mainsails and cockpits just big enough for two�started smoothly enough off Long Beach, Calif, last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
He added sails for every kind of weather�four mainsails, twelve jibs, eight spinnakers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Where there was a forest of bare poles are soon hundreds of jibs and mainsails, rosy in the first rays of the rising sun.
From American Merchant Ships and Sailors by Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John)
