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Recent Examples of longboat
Platoon after platoon scuffed down to the shoreline to clamber aboard gunboats, longboats, and six-oared, flat-bottomed bateaux.
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/ Cbs News, CBS News, 13 June 2025
Day 9-10 - Railay Beach (one night) Where to stay
Get up early to take a longboat from Ao Nang to Railay.
—Adam Turner, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2025
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
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/ Cbs News, CBS News, 13 June 2025
Day 9-10 - Railay Beach (one night) Where to stay
Get up early to take a longboat from Ao Nang to Railay.
—Adam Turner, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Feb. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for longboat
Noun
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This logic linked Ehrlich’s ecological carrying capacity, lifeboat ethics – the idea that wealthy nations risked being swamped by immigration – and reactionary anxieties about demographic change.—
Brian C. Keegan,
The Conversation,
26 Mar. 2026
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The Orion spacecraft is NASA’s deep-space crew vehicle — the astronauts' home, control room, and lifeboat for the entire journey around the moon.—
Tariq Malik,
Space.com,
25 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The cost of taking corn and soybeans to market, whether via truck, barge or rail, also goes up along with oil prices.—
Chicago Tribune,
Twin Cities,
26 Mar. 2026
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The company plans to transport Starships built in Texas via barge to Florida to help scale up the program and to begin launch operations there.—
Brandon Lingle,
San Antonio Express-News,
25 Mar. 2026
Noun
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A couple of cutters, couple of good sliders.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
29 Mar. 2026
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His relied heavily on his four-seam fastball, but mixed in the rest of his arsenal — the slider (18 times), changeup (10 times), sweeper (nine times), curveball (eight times) and cutter (five times) — to keep opponents off balanced.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
28 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Babu immediately fell into the flow, picking a nap chair in the bow and inquiring about the riverboat’s construction.—
Kathryn Romeyn,
Condé Nast Traveler,
30 Mar. 2026
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As for the riverboat funds, Pierog confirmed that there have been no allocations of those funds for the coming year, as requests for these grants are still being submitted.—
Molly Morrow,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Mar. 2026
Noun
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In [The Assassination of Gianni Versace], after the assassination, Andrew Cunanan kills himself on a houseboat.—
Chris Murphy,
Vanity Fair,
27 Mar. 2026
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The pair lived on a houseboat while transforming the place into a lunch counter.—
Chelsea Brasted,
Southern Living,
12 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The ship's captain ordered the crew to the yawl boat.—
Caitlin Looby,
jsonline.com,
22 Sep. 2025
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Captain William Griffin and his crew escaped, hopping on the ship’s yawl boat, in time to see the ship and its iron ore cargo vanish underwater.—
Brian Anthony Hernandez,
PEOPLE,
21 Sep. 2025
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At Lake Natoma, home to the Sacramento State Aquatic Center, motorboats are more restricted, so sports like rowing, kayaking, sailing and windsurfing proliferate.—
Kate Bradshaw,
Mercury News,
30 Mar. 2026
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According to Pacific Historic Parks, McMeans was in a motorboat helping other sailors get to shore when that boat was struck by a bomb.—
Stephen Smith,
CBS News,
14 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Her keel was laid down on February 3, 1994, at the Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, and she was christened on February 18, 1995.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
22 Mar. 2026
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The explosion broke the ship's keel, sending tons of water gushing into the engine room and causing a massive fire that nearly destroyed the ship.—
Scott Neuman,
NPR,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Longboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/longboat. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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