tall ship

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Recent Examples of tall ship After finishing my bachelor’s degree, more seasonal jobs followed: a stint at a museum, a tall ship on the Hudson River, working as a outdoor educator. Kira Cordova, Denver Post, 18 Nov. 2025 The anachronistic, startling tall ship and black mast, the word Dash clearly visible upon her prow, supposedly took the blasts and disappeared again. Leanna Renee Hieber, Big Think, 2 Oct. 2025 Relatively few of us go down to the seas anymore, and even fewer of us get to steer a tall ship. Adrian Vore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2025 The tall ship is used to educate more than 5,000 school children a year on maritime history and pirate life. Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tall ship
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Noun
  • One became a merchant ship navigator in 1918.
    Ashley Mackin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Over the course of its full deployment from September 2024 through May 2025, the carrier strike group had a friendly fire incident in December — when a Navy destroyer launched missiles at two F-18s — a collision with a merchant ship in February and lost two F-18s, one in April and another in May.
    Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Jonathan Carver, suggest the name may also refer to beetle larvae emerging from thawing tree bark.
    Alexis Simmerman, Austin American Statesman, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Keep an eye out for Jeffrey pines, which will have deeply furrowed bark and round prickly cones.
    Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Their $500 million mega yacht, Koru, was anchored nearby, but the couple reportedly spent most of their time on land.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The Coral Gables man operating the boat that ran over and killed a 15-year-old girl wakeboarding behind a yacht in Biscayne Bay pleaded guilty to misdemeanor careless-boating charges Monday in a Miami-Dade County court.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Since the shootings, Radford has been held in pretrial confinement at a Navy brig in Charleston, South Carolina.
    CBS News, CBS News, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Gales tore at the Mary’s sails, and surf crashed across the brig’s deck.
    Adam L. Rovner, The Conversation, 31 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Jet Ski, stand-up paddleboard, kayak, and sailboat rentals are also available nearby.
    Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Along the western edge of the Netherlands, where long stretches of blue sea meet shores painted with pine trees, windmills, and sailboats, lies Domburg—a 16th-century village in the maritime province of Zeeland.
    Katherine McGrath, Architectural Digest, 22 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The rhetoric from Washington and Tehran — and US military deployments, including the recent arrival of aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in the Middle East — appears to signal confrontation, and many airlines have canceled flights to the Gulf over the past week.
    Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The trials mark the first time the aircraft carrier has operated in open waters, moving beyond construction and dockside testing at the shipyard.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 29 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

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“Tall ship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tall%20ship. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.

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