as in yacht
a boat equipped with one or more sails
we went sailing on the secluded lake in a little two-person dinghy
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Recent Examples of dinghy
Miller was able to get back on the dinghy, but the younger Erdman punched him several times in the face, the report states.
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David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 25 June 2025
Triano saw the force of the explosion fling people into the water and rode over on his dinghy to help.
—Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 27 May 2025
The wooden dinghy that was over 20 feet long (6 meters) had scuffed blue paint and wooden planks for seats.
—Dan Gooding
gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 May 2025
Or rather, the slow, clinging descent down the dinghy’s slippery three-step ladder into what might as well have been a black hole, the water was so opaque.
—Billie Cohen, AFAR Media, 30 Apr. 2025
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David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 25 June 2025
Triano saw the force of the explosion fling people into the water and rode over on his dinghy to help.
—Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 27 May 2025
The wooden dinghy that was over 20 feet long (6 meters) had scuffed blue paint and wooden planks for seats.
—Dan Gooding
gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 May 2025
Or rather, the slow, clinging descent down the dinghy’s slippery three-step ladder into what might as well have been a black hole, the water was so opaque.
—Billie Cohen, AFAR Media, 30 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dinghy
Noun
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Design firm Yabu Pushelberg created interiors that feel more like a private yacht than a city hotel.—
Lauren Mowery,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Those sailing aboard The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection’s 226-suite Luminara yacht can count Singapore as a spectacular port of call.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This will mark the first time LL Cool J, 57, is steering the ship solo.—
Marina Watts,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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Maybe ship Enid with somebody her own age.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
6 Sep. 2025
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The same year the Earl of Chatham was discovered in Scotland, a storm in Massachusetts exposed a wrecked schooner from 1909, another on North Carolina’s Outer Banks’s revealed the remains of a boat from 1919 and storms in Maine resurfaced yet another 18th century vessel on a beach.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
7 Aug. 2025
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The source is a wooden schooner named the James R. Bentley that's been sitting in Lake Huron for nearly 150 years.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
7 Aug. 2025
Noun
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From Ocean Swell to Living-Room Calm Industrial designer Roey Pan sketched the first arc aboard a 27-ft sloop, tracing the way a mainsail breathes with the wind.—
Malana VanTyler,
USA Today,
23 Aug. 2025
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An avuncular figure in his 70s with the physique of a man who has enjoyed life, Pier Luigi fell in love with sailing in his late teens, when a family friend took him for a cruise in a sloop.—
Paul Croughton,
Robb Report,
10 Aug. 2025
Noun
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It’s sort of based on a sailboat.—
Adriane Quinlan,
Curbed,
4 Sep. 2025
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This Versailles-meets-surrealism palace hotel is set on the doorstep of the Tuileries Garden, where hotel staff can arrange for carousel rides and loaner toy sailboats.—
Elissa Garay,
AFAR Media,
3 Sep. 2025
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Thales has completed Factory Acceptance Tests (FATs) for both the Mission System and the Combat System on the Royal Navy’s new Type 31 Inspiration-class frigates.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Sep. 2025
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British officials, seeking economies of scale for their own navy and to boost Scotland’s shipyard industry, had heavily promoted the BAE Systems’ frigates, known as the T-26 City-class.—
Reuters 22 min ago,
CNN Money,
31 Aug. 2025
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“Dinghy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dinghy. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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