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sailboat

noun

ˈsāl-ˌbōt

Definition of sailboat

as in yacht

a boat equipped with one or more sails we were stuck in the sailboat for an hour until the wind came up and we could move again

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Recent Examples of sailboat There's a miniature sailboat mounted on a wall, a marble plinth bearing a pile of seashells. — Megan Rose Murray, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Aug. 2026 The top row is there because my wife and I live on a sailboat full-time. — David Pierce, The Verge, 15 Aug. 2026 The location is incredible, just in the middle of the harbor, and the setting is so elegant and authentic, with amazing old sailboat models. — Kissa Castaneda, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026 After spending most of his career working hard in a sport that barely registers any level of attention in the wider world, Ainslie welcomes the brighter — but also harsher — spotlight that this seven-year-old league is shining on sailboat racing. — Andrew Rice, New York Times, 24 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for sailboat

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Noun

Brady hasn’t been linked to anyone in a hot minute and was recently seen on his mega yacht near his Indian Creek Village mansion solo.

— Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2026
Optimal Transit puts an all-in VITAL vessel at about US$587 million, roughly the same amount as or less than the price of Jeff Bezos’s data-center-less, non-freshwater-producing luxury yacht.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of yacht

Noun

Forests delivered lumber to build ships and barrels for transporting goods that allowed the United States to become a global trading power.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026
The Panama Canal Authority has already begun to restrict the number and size of ships allowed to pass in 2026.

— Steven Paton, The Conversation, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of ship

Noun

Sailing aboard a 30-foot sloop on Acapulco Bay, Henry Kissinger kept a protective arm around his new wife, as a motorboat filled with the press corps followed.

— Robert D. Mcfadden, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2026
Just two days after the Hannah was underway, her crew captured the Unity, a sloop loaded with naval stores and lumber, supplies sorely needed by British forces in Boston.

— Christopher Magra, The Conversation, 2 June 2026

Definition of sloop

Noun

Three officers in a patrol boat saw him and two other people riding in a dinghy with a blue canopy in Cow Channel.

— David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 21 July 2026
Operating as close as possible to the Libyan search-and-rescue zone, its crew deployed fast rigid inflatable boats (RHIBs) to reach overcrowded inflatable dinghies before larger rescue vessels could arrive.

— Isabella Wandermurem, Time, 17 July 2026

Definition of dinghy

Noun

The system completed a year of testing aboard the German frigate Sachsen, during which its tracking, command, and engagement technologies were evaluated under maritime conditions.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2026
Taiwan’s destroyers and frigates, many of which are based on 50-year-old American designs, are well understood and therefore institutionally safe choices.

— HOLMES LIAO, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2026

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