sloop

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Recent Examples of sloop Now as sailors stepped out into the surf, a great crowd tried to take oars off the first sloop. Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026 Anguilla's rich sailing history comes alive while exploring the island's coastline on a classic Caribbean sloop. Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 28 Dec. 2025 Inspired by the original 1926 Q Class sloop, known as Q7 Falcon, aka Lively Lady, which Peter sails regularly around San Diego. Kathleen Turner, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for sloop
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Noun
  • Bring your favorite bottle of bubbly and pick up a lobster roll flight from Off the Hook before setting sail on the Argia schooner, which accommodates up to 49 passengers.
    Morgan Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The other Charlottes After the schooner was sold in Pensacola five years later, the next ship — named the North Carolina — was commissioned in 1908, according to the Commander Submarine Force website.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 6 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Following its renovation, the yacht features revised living spaces with interiors that favor understated luxury, blending midcentury furniture with contemporary pieces from Liaigre and Holly Hunt.
    Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 22 Mar. 2026
  • The song’s music video features the band on an emotional yacht outing with Lili Reinhart.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 21 Mar. 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
  • 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
  • However, the ship will still operate as part of a larger task force, supported by frigates, submarines, and airborne early warning aircraft.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Macron also said that two French frigates have been dispatched to the Red Sea to help ensure maritime security and freedom of navigation.
    ABC News, ABC News, 16 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
  • If luxury is your group's priority, Pelican Cabo’s Pelican 11, a 55-foot catamaran, offers a more indulgent way to take in the scenery.
    Latifah Al Hazza, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Other inflatable boats go the catamaran route.
    Omar Kardoudi March 13, New Atlas, 13 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Blasetti is facing grand larceny charges for allegedly swiping a keelboat from the Dyckman Marina in Inwood around noon Saturday and rowed it to a trimaran moored out in the Hudson River.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 24 July 2025
  • Most of the time, a small keelboat barely exceeds 10 knots of speed (11.5mph).
    Andrew Rice, The Athletic, 13 Mar. 2025

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“Sloop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sloop. Accessed 24 Mar. 2026.

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