schooner

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Recent Examples of schooner Ella is shocked to suddenly find Nick (Brown), a sailor and local Newport historian, aboard her schooner and accuses him of being a stowaway. Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Dec. 2025 Private speedboat or catamaran charters are nothing compared to the experience aboard the Friendship Rose, a classic Caribbean schooner with soaring sails built by hand on the sands of Bequia's Friendship Bay several decades ago. Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 1 Dec. 2025 There, patrons throw back beers by the schooner (a large goblet), liter and half-liter. Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 10 Nov. 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 See All Example Sentences for schooner
Recent Examples of Synonyms for schooner
Noun
  • Renowned British designer Malcolm McKeon, famous for creating elegant, unfussy sailing yachts, penned the exterior, combining the sleekness and balance of a sloop with the volume and comfort of a superyacht.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Now as sailors stepped out into the surf, a great crowd tried to take oars off the first sloop.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History On Nov. 16, 1776, the Andrew Doria brigantine arrived in the Caribbean on the British colony St. Eustatius, waving the first national flag of the United States.
    Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2026
  • On December 4, 1872, sailors aboard the Canadian brigantine Dei Gratia spotted a ship named the Mary Celeste in the distance.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Plush beds, marble bathrooms, wooden floors, and brass light fixtures evoke the feeling of a luxe sailing yacht adorned in deep blues and rich greens.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Mexico was the scene for yacht captain Bob Parsons and librarian Beverly Carriveau’s summer romance that lasted through the decades.
    Maureen Ohare, CNN Money, 14 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The ship's captain ordered the crew to the yawl boat.
    Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 22 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • The Panamax ketch features a sleek aluminum exterior, with a displacement hull and a distinctive pointed bow.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 July 2025
  • And through such buffetings Constance’s little ketch had run aground.
    Jim Shepard, New Yorker, 8 June 2025
Noun
  • And China already possesses the world’s-largest fleet of destroyers, frigates and surface combatants.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Besides the light frigates, Taiwan’s Republic of China Navy (ROCN) is also looking to procure a submarine rescue ship, a fast combat support ship, two rescue vessels, and a 10,600-ton amphibious assault vessel.
    Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 9 Feb. 2026
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
Noun
  • In addition to the typical lineup of bus, walking, and biking tours, Princess offers guests beach opportunities and catamaran snorkel experiences in and around the Caribbean.
    Fran Golden, Travel + Leisure, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Villa staff will work with guests to book experiences, including tennis coaching, horseback riding on the beach and catamaran charters.
    Catherine Garcia, TheWeek, 6 Feb. 2026

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“Schooner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schooner. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.

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