Examples of speedboat in a Sentence
speedboats leaving wakes that cause damage to docked vessels and the shoreline
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But most experts on criminal cartels and deadly street drugs say military strikes on speedboats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific will have little or no impact on overdose deaths in the United States.
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Brian Mann, NPR, 11 Dec. 2025
Strikes on speedboats allegedly running drugs in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific — which have killed more than 80 people since early September — hardly require such firepower.
—Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 2 Dec. 2025
Private speedboat or catamaran charters are nothing compared to the experience aboard the Friendship Rose, a classic Caribbean schooner with soaring sails built by hand on the sands of Bequia's Friendship Bay several decades ago.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 1 Dec. 2025
Musk oxen can be shot from snowmobiles, narwhals and minke whales from speedboats.
—Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
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Brian Mann, NPR, 11 Dec. 2025
Strikes on speedboats allegedly running drugs in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific — which have killed more than 80 people since early September — hardly require such firepower.
—Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 2 Dec. 2025
Private speedboat or catamaran charters are nothing compared to the experience aboard the Friendship Rose, a classic Caribbean schooner with soaring sails built by hand on the sands of Bequia's Friendship Bay several decades ago.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 1 Dec. 2025
Musk oxen can be shot from snowmobiles, narwhals and minke whales from speedboats.
—Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
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“Speedboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/speedboat. Accessed 18 Dec. 2025.
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speedboat
noun
speed·boat
ˈspēd-ˌbōt 
: a fast motorboat
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