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schooner

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Definition of schooner

as in sloop

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Recent Examples of schooner Today, the 128-foot wooden schooner rests upright in about 60 feet of water. — Stacy Conde, Midwest Living, 10 Aug. 2026 Amid the oceangoing vessels bound for all four corners of the world was a little twenty-ton schooner built in Monterey, the Peor es Nada. — Literary Hub, 29 July 2026 From there, walk toward Salem Maritime National Historical Park and Derby Wharf before getting back onto the water for a harbor cruise or schooner sail. — Jenn Sinrich, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 July 2026 When the perilous search for the Northwest Passage sparked a wave of popular interest in the Arctic, Church set off by schooner in search of icebergs. — Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 13 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for schooner

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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

The Continental brigantine Andrew Doria arrived carrying a copy of the Declaration of Independence and flying the Continental Colors – the predecessor of the stars and stripes.

— R. Grant Gilmore III, The Conversation, 30 June 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

Definition of brigantine

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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

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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

Definition of frigate

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From time to time, Li Shan would offer Noe a sum impressive to a fisherman to sail his lugger—a forty-foot vessel made for the shallower waters of home into the Gulf to meet a ship bound for New Orleans.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
The excess metal goes into roll off boxes or lugger boxes at the customer's factory.

— Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 3 July 2025

Definition of lugger

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The ferry, a wide-bodied catamaran, had just left Kyrenia, known as Girne in Turkish, and was carrying many Turkish tourists returning from vacation.

— Andrew Wilks, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026
The ferry involved, a catamaran, was one of several shuttle sea services that link North Cyprus with Turkey daily.

— Reuters, USA Today, 30 Aug. 2026

Definition of catamaran

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