How to Use sloop in a Sentence

sloop

noun

• Over yonder a fair-sized sloop is perched up in somebody’s yard.
  — al, 19 Nov. 2020
• Now as sailors stepped out into the surf, a great crowd tried to take oars off the first sloop.
  — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
• Then a great storm arose, mountainous seas, and the sloop was destroyed.
  — John McPhee, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
• Ted lifted down a tray of eggs and, pouring a sloop of oil into a pan,cracked one against the edge.
  — Literary Hub, 7 Aug. 2025
• The first ships to sail the lakes were classic European schooners, sloops and brigs.
  — Porter Fox, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2016
• Think of it as a go-fast boat that’s as tranquil (and sustainable) as a classic sloop.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 10 Sep. 2021
• Another thing Horus has over a classic car or sloop is space.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 6 July 2023
• Richardson began transporting goods around the bay on a 15-ton sloop.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 May 2022
• There are wildlife exhibits, a gift shop, a playground, disc golf, and a ramp for launching your sloop on to the Ohio.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 21 Nov. 2019
• After a bit of a lull, Perini Navi is back with a groundbreaking new sloop.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 10 June 2022
• Wood was an avid sailor who died of a heart attack on his sloop, the Nydia, in 1956.
  — NOLA.com, 14 June 2017
• Twenty men on Maynard’s sloop died, and Blackbeard presumed the rest of the crew dead.
  — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2024
• Who’d have thought an old-fashioned Dutch sloop would inspire such a modern-day trailblazer?
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 21 Jan. 2022
• Or spend a day aboard Beauty, a classic 49-foot sloop (extra charges apply for both of these).
  — Diane Bair and Pamela Wright, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2019
• Benjamin’s sloop outside Nassau sank, forcing him to leap into a small skiff towed behind it.
  — Andrea Cooper, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Sep. 2020
• The Dutch, spotting an old man approaching in a canoe, sent out a sloop to investigate.
  — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
• The sleek, all-aluminum sloop is powered by a Caterpillar engine and can reach more than 14 knots at full tilt.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 5 July 2022
• In the Caribbean, wandering yachtsmen on sloops and catamarans know these masts well.
  — Joe Sills, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025
• Blackbeard intended to refit his remaining sloop and head to the Bahamas.
  — John Bordsen, USA TODAY, 22 June 2018
• After this, Roggeveen decided to send two sloops and three other boats to shore and make friendly introductions.
  — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
• Royal Huisman is taking sloops to new heights, literally.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 14 Nov. 2025
• On the voyage, The Ranger sunk a brig loaded with flax seed, a schooner with barley and oats and a merchant sloop from Dublin filled with beer.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 1 May 2017
• For the first race aboard his new 52-foot racing sloop, Bill Dana finished out of the top 10, and there was a good reason.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Apr. 2021
• To aid his cause to clean up the dirty Hudson River, Seeger and others crafted a sloop called Clearwater.
  — USA TODAY, 27 June 2019
• Palm Beach Motor Yachts has taken its supermaxi sloop to new heights—quite literally.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 24 Feb. 2026
• The festival takes its name from the Hudson River sloop Clearwater, which Seeger helped launch more than four decades ago.
  — Thom Duffy, Billboard, 1 Mar. 2018
• And all their designs pushed the upper limits of the International Offshore Rule for one-ton sloops.
  — Bill Center, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 July 2017
• On a two-sail boat like this one (called a sloop), the emphasis is on the mainsail (B), the sail nearer the stern (H), which is the rearmost or aft part of the boat.
  — Caleb Paine, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2021
• Wood died at age 88 of a heart attack while sailing alone in his sloop, the Nydia, near his home in Biloxi, Mississippi.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• Today, there are 90 rooms and suites in four buildings, including in the main building with its wide veranda at the crest of a sloop above Lake Dora.
  — John Cutter, orlandosentinel.com, 13 Dec. 2020