: a boat usually propelled by sail
Examples of sailboat in a Sentence
we were stuck in the sailboat for an hour until the wind came up and we could move again
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Pirsig used his royalties from the book to buy a 30-foot, $60,000 sailboat named Arete.
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Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2024
To collect fresh data, Dr. Boucek, 39, who lives on a sailboat in Marathon, in the Middle Keys, goes out on a boat every few days to check on sensors.
—Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2024
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Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2024
To collect fresh data, Dr. Boucek, 39, who lives on a sailboat in Marathon, in the Middle Keys, goes out on a boat every few days to check on sensors.
—Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2024
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“Sailboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sailboat. Accessed 3 May. 2024.
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sailboat
noun
sail·boat
ˈsā(ə)l-ˌbōt 
: a boat equipped with sails
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