outrigger

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Recent Examples of outrigger And Ami just loses her footing and falls off the outrigger. EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025 The Sentinelese hunt in the rainforest and fish in the coastal waters using spears, bows and arrows, as well as homemade narrow outrigger canoes, according to Survival International. Esha Mitra, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2025 Travelers interested in Polynesian culture may want to test the resort’s traditional outrigger canoe on a trip to one of the surrounding private islets that share an atoll with the Brando. Laura Begley Bloom, AFAR Media, 25 Feb. 2025 The search effort began after an outrigger kayak that was broken in half was found west of the Mission Bay entrance channel. Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for outrigger
Recent Examples of Synonyms for outrigger
Noun
  • The Beast, a massive power catamaran built for extreme expeditions to the vast reaches of the earth, is up for sale.
    Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Beyond the resort, there is also horseback riding and luxury catamaran cruises to swim with turtles.
    Kate Van Dyke, Travel + Leisure, 25 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Despite vacationing on a luxury yacht, Bronwyn spent the night sleeping on a pool chair on the deck rather than spending the night having to share a bed with Britani.
    Tom Smyth, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2025
  • In July, Aniston and Curtis were seen enjoying a day at sea aboard a yacht off the coast of Mallorca, Spain.
    Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 4 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The Coast Guard launched a response involving the cutter Angela McShan (WPC 1135), an HC-130 Hercules airplane and an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Air Station Elizabeth City.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Shohei Ohtani, who had started the game on short rest and surrendered a three-run blast to Bo Bichette that put the Dodgers in a hole, hacked at a first-pitch cutter inside that Isiah Kiner-Falefa at second base handled easily.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Ella is shocked to suddenly find Nick (Brown), a sailor and local Newport historian, aboard her schooner and accuses him of being a stowaway.
    Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The Dash was a privateer schooner that vanished in 1815 and soon entered local legend as a ghost ship.
    Leanna Renee Hieber, Big Think, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Inspired by the original 1926 Q Class sloop, known as Q7 Falcon, aka Lively Lady, which Peter sails regularly around San Diego.
    Kathleen Turner, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Blasetti is facing grand larceny charges for allegedly swiping a keelboat from the Dyckman Marina in Inwood around noon Saturday and rowed it to a trimaran moored out in the Hudson River.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 24 July 2025
  • Most of the time, a small keelboat barely exceeds 10 knots of speed (11.5mph).
    Andrew Rice, The Athletic, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Those who prefer something more active can rent jet skis or head on a catboat tour in a two-person catamaran.
    Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2024
  • At the Seafire, everything from nautical motif chairs upholstered in international flags to a traditional wooden Cayman catboat and prints from local pop artist Dready are found beneath the lobby’s 20-foot ceiling, grounded by natural materials, like weathered wood and polished coral stone.
    Shayne Benowitz, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
Noun
  • The excess metal goes into roll off boxes or lugger boxes at the customer's factory.
    Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 3 July 2025
  • One of the luggers offered her the pick of the litter but warned against some old chairs.
    Jake Offenhartz, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025

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“Outrigger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outrigger. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.

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