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
He was ordered to pay a $5M criminal forfeiture, which included $100K in gold coins, luxury vehicles, jewelry, vacation homes, a sailboat and interests in several businesses.
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Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2025
Capehart has been at Eagle Creek Summer Sailing Camp as a camper for four years and joined the racing team this year, working to get more comfortable and confident on a sailboat.
—Grace Smith, IndyStar, 28 Aug. 2025
The dining room’s glass walls look onto sailboats bobbing in the marina as the sun sets over the Atlantic.
—Seth Sherwood, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
The crash comes just two weeks and a day after a barge struck a sailboat with Miami Yacht Club summer campers off Hibiscus Island in Miami Beach.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
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Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 28 Aug. 2025
Capehart has been at Eagle Creek Summer Sailing Camp as a camper for four years and joined the racing team this year, working to get more comfortable and confident on a sailboat.
—Grace Smith, IndyStar, 28 Aug. 2025
The dining room’s glass walls look onto sailboats bobbing in the marina as the sun sets over the Atlantic.
—Seth Sherwood, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
The crash comes just two weeks and a day after a barge struck a sailboat with Miami Yacht Club summer campers off Hibiscus Island in Miami Beach.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sailboat
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
Noun
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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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That was enough to buy him a space on a derelict dinghy, with some 70 others, hoping soon to see England’s white cliffs.—
Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
22 Aug. 2025
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The outlet reported a rescue boat was deployed to help the man, who was pulled from the sea onto a dinghy, but did not survive.—
Colson Thayer,
People.com,
14 Aug. 2025
Noun
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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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“Sailboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sailboat. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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