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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sloop
Noun
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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,
22 Apr. 2026
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En route from Bermuda to Newfoundland, the Swift sank along with the British Royal Navy frigate HMS Barbadoes and the schooner Emeline.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
20 Apr. 2026
Noun
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In this environment of yachts, red carpets and excesses, the cast will give life to a new group of guests whose vacation, if the season follows tradition, will be cut short by a crime.—
Diego Parrado,
Vanity Fair,
26 Apr. 2026
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Gabriela Naranjo, Silversea’s vice president and general manager in Ecuador, told me at the beginning of our journey aboard the company's first destination-specific expedition yacht, Silver Origin.—
David Morris,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Apr. 2026
Noun
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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
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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
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The Panamax ketch features a sleek aluminum exterior, with a displacement hull and a distinctive pointed bow.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
8 July 2025
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And through such buffetings Constance’s little ketch had run aground.—
Jim Shepard,
New Yorker,
8 June 2025
Noun
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The 3-billion-euro agreement included the purchase of 24 Rafale fighter jets and four state-of-the-art frigates including the Kimon, which Macron and Mitsotakis visited Saturday.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
25 Apr. 2026
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That’s exactly what happened, according to a report by The Register, where a Dutch journalist mailed a postcard with a tracker embedded in it to the HNLMS Evertsen, an air defense frigate on maneuvers escorting the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle.—
Alan Henry,
PC Magazine,
24 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The ship's captain ordered the crew to the yawl boat.—
Caitlin Looby,
jsonline.com,
22 Sep. 2025
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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
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Divers and others can enhance their stay on The Explorer, the luxury live-aboard catamaran that caters to both Four Seasons's resorts.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
28 Apr. 2026
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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,
22 Apr. 2026
Noun
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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
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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 3 May. 2026.
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