Examples of speedboat in a Sentence
speedboats leaving wakes that cause damage to docked vessels and the shoreline
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Barely a 30-minute speedboat ride from Athens, Keá is the nearest Cycladic island to the mainland.
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Bridget Arsenault, Air Mail, 27 Sep. 2025
The first shots The lethal strike on a speedboat allegedly tied to the cartel —though highly controversial— was a clear message to Maduro’s inner circle, De La Cruz said.
—Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 20 Sep. 2025
The president's post was accompanied by video clips showing a speedboat traveling through the ocean, with one of the videos appearing to be infrared, before it was hit and destroyed by a large explosion.
—James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
Scale-ups are speedboats, not cruise ships.
—Charles Towers-Clark, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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Bridget Arsenault, Air Mail, 27 Sep. 2025
The first shots The lethal strike on a speedboat allegedly tied to the cartel —though highly controversial— was a clear message to Maduro’s inner circle, De La Cruz said.
—Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 20 Sep. 2025
The president's post was accompanied by video clips showing a speedboat traveling through the ocean, with one of the videos appearing to be infrared, before it was hit and destroyed by a large explosion.
—James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
Scale-ups are speedboats, not cruise ships.
—Charles Towers-Clark, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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“Speedboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/speedboat. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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speedboat
noun
speed·boat
ˈspēd-ˌbōt 
: a fast motorboat
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