jolly boat

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Noun
  • One captain intentionally beached his boat while being pursued by a Coast Guard cutter, while another only stopped after a Coast Guard crew member fired copper slugs into the boat’s engine to disable it.
    Alexandra Mendoza, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2025
  • During that period, 10 cutters were taken out of service and almost 30 Coast Guard stations were temporarily abandoned.
    Peter D'Abrosca, FOXNews.com, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • Lunde managed to escape onto a lifeboat, which drifted in the Atlantic for a week before reaching Ireland.
    Heather Farmbrough, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
  • After surviving the shipwreck, Pi’s joy, humor and despair turn on a dime as his lifeboat is beset by surviving animals — a hyena, a zebra, an orangutan named Orange Juice, and our Royal Bengal tiger.
    John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The fire suppression efforts involve five engines, three water tenders and two hand crews.
    CA WILDFIRE BOT, Sacbee.com, 19 May 2025
  • The tender meat, deeply browned, flavorful crust, and of course, the lip-smacking juices all amount to an incredibly satisfying bite.
    Katie Rosenhouse, Southern Living, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • High up the sides of the room is a forest of fake fir trees on the peaks of the mountain and on the lower level there’s a harbour with full-size longboats sitting in it.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Colonial pilots would unload their cargo onto smaller longboats so it could be carried 100 miles upstream to New Orleans, to avoid getting stuck in the mud.
    Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 June 2024
Noun
  • While working in South America, the Neapolitan engineer oversaw the launch of a plant in Brazil that made Jeep the country’s top-selling SUV brand.
    Mark Phelan, USA Today, 20 May 2025
  • The Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center coordinated the launch, which sent four Tianqi satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO).
    Josh Dinner, Space.com, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • Founded in the 1950s, the auxiliary supports The Salvation Army’s social service programs.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Chrissy Davis is the co-president of the auxiliary of Infant Welfare Family Health and is on the board of directors of Infant Welfare Society of Chicago.
    Myrna Petlicki, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Dove/Torr Cottage, Centerport After a decade living on their yawl in Huntington Harbor and a stint upstate after his mother died, artists Arthur Dove and Helen Torr were able to purchase an old post-office building perched alongside Titus Mill Pond in 1938.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 27 July 2024
  • Prior to the incident, Wilson had been aboard a 52-foot yawl named the Emerald with friends Oster and Colleen McGovern.
    Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 24 May 2024
Noun
  • These technologies include a bubble barrier that removes small fish trapped under barges or carried in their wake and an acoustic deterrent that creates painful sound waves.
    Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2025
  • This nighttime parade features beautifully decorated barges that glide along the San Antonio River.
    Jill Robbins, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2025
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“Jolly boat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jolly%20boat. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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