schooner

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Recent Examples of schooner The 98-foot-long schooner was built in Massachusetts in 1883. David Matthews, New York Daily News, 23 Jan. 2026 When the schooner was just off the coast of El Salvador, a tramp steamer spotted them and finally supplied fresh water. Michael Waters, New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for schooner
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Noun
  • Palm Beach Motor Yachts has taken its supermaxi sloop to new heights—quite literally.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 24 Feb. 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
  • He is also accused of using his salary, which he is capped at a maximum of $400,000 plus certain fees, to buy things such as a 68-foot yacht and a home in Cocoplum.
    Ana Maria Soler, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2026
  • The company is currently working to power a wide range of vessels that includes VTOLs, race boats and yachts, motorcycles and defense platforms, manufacturing motors at its 86,000-sq ft three-site facility in Milton Keynes, UK.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Mar. 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
  • The third Charlotte ship, a patrol frigate, was manned by the Coast Guard during World War II.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Spain will send its Christopher Columbus frigate to Cyprus, joining France’s Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier and other Greek navy ships, its defense ministry said in a statement.
    Jasmine Green, NBC news, 5 Mar. 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
  • The Turkish yard just unveiled a 62-foot hybrid catamaran that is the very definition of small but mighty.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Later, in December, two sailors and their dog were rescued from a sinking catamaran almost 60 miles off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, thanks to a radio alert also detected by satellites, NOAA said.
    Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026

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“Schooner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schooner. Accessed 13 Mar. 2026.

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