as in motorboat
a boat equipped with a motor
speedboats leaving wakes that cause damage to docked vessels and the shoreline
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Recent Examples of speedboat
The video broadcast overnight Thursday showed masked troops pulling up in a gray speedboat to the MSC Francesca, one of three container ships fired upon the day before.
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Bart Jansen, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026
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
The snarling sound of a speedboat broke the spell.
—Literary Hub, 13 Apr. 2026
No hull means no wave impacts, and that's where most of a regular speedboat's noise and vibration come from.
—Omar Kardoudi
april 09, New Atlas, 9 Apr. 2026
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Bart Jansen, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2026
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
The snarling sound of a speedboat broke the spell.
—Literary Hub, 13 Apr. 2026
No hull means no wave impacts, and that's where most of a regular speedboat's noise and vibration come from.
—Omar Kardoudi
april 09, New Atlas, 9 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for speedboat
Recent Examples of Synonyms for speedboat
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Instead, Chinese Indonesian studio operators worked with Javanese painters to produce popular backdrops of local Indonesian landscapes—featuring scenery such as palm trees and volcanoes—with modern instruments like radios and motorboats serving as props.—
H.M.A. Leow,
JSTOR Daily,
17 Apr. 2026
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An American who was arrested in the Bahamas after his wife vanished while the couple were traveling in a motorboat near the archipelago denies any wrongdoing, his attorney said Thursday.—
R.j. Rico,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Apr. 2026
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In November 2024, military officials in England announced that a shipwreck discovered off the coast of Scotland was confirmed to be the HMS Hawke, a British cruiser sunk by a torpedo during World War I, killing more than 500 crew members on board.—
Stephen Smith,
CBS News,
30 Apr. 2026
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Magnano got out of his cruiser and approached his fellow officers before almost immediately yelling for Steven Jones to drop the knife, according to the video.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
30 Apr. 2026
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These are all places where anglers, waterskiers, and other lake users have been running powerboats for more than 100 years.—
Dac Collins,
Outdoor Life,
2 Apr. 2026
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Some powerboat rentals will operate from a dock farther east, with shuttles taking customers out.—
Spencer Wilson,
CBS News,
4 Mar. 2026
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“Speedboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/speedboat. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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