tall ship

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Recent Examples of tall ship The crew People from around the country work on and with tall ships and get there in all kinds of ways, Moore said. Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 9 Aug. 2025 The 295-foot training vessel — widely referred to as America’s tall ship — is scheduled to tie up at the B Street Pier, 1140 North Harbor Drive, San Diego. Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025 Beyond the tall ships, SAIL250 activities will feature local festivals, aviation demonstrations, educational activities and an air show. Irit Skulnik, Baltimore Sun, 24 June 2025 The other tall ships are used as ambassadors by Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela. Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 18 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for tall ship
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Noun
  • Maritime evidence includes a merchant ship, stone anchors, and what officials described as a harbour crane, clustered near a 125-metre dock that the antiquities ministry said served as a harbour for small boats until the Byzantine period.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The Lisbon Maru — a Japanese merchant ship covertly carrying around 1,800 British POWs in the Far East — is torpedoed by mistake off the coast of China’s Dongji Island by an American submarine, unaware of the lives hidden below deck.
    Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 28 July 2025
Noun
  • Chopping them down, injecting their bark with herbicide and spraying their stumps can prevent further growth and limit spread.
    Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 24 Sep. 2025
  • His rapturous barks bounce from wall to wall around the granite basin.
    Ted Katauskas, Outside, 23 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The yacht will also boast 11 restaurants and bars; a 66-foot saltwater pool; a spa; a fitness center; and a transverse marina offering sea access.
    Nathan Diller, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The two were recently spotted enjoying a rare yacht weekend together in Italy, according to Page Six.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • On June 28, the team discovered the ship, a 144-foot-long schooner – a type of sailing vessel with two or more masts – that sank to the bottom of Lake Michigan in 1886.
    Julia Gomez, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Ella is shocked to suddenly find Nick (Brown), a sailor and local Newport historian, aboard her schooner and accuses him of being a stowaway.
    Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Grand Residences Riviera Cancun Puerto Morelos, Mexico With swimming pools, a sandy beach, and kayaks and sailboats, active families can have fun in or on the water at Grand Residences Riviera Cancun.
    Allison Tibaldi, USA Today, 27 Sep. 2025
  • In addition to serving time, he was also ordered to pay a criminal forfeiture of $5 million, which included $100,000 in gold and silver coins, a Porsche Panamera, two Range Rovers, luxury watches, homes in Costa Rica, Peru and Cabo San Lucas and a sailboat.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • M’Benga makes the difficult decision to send Gamble, or whatever, to the brig.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Even if one of the arriving Republic cruisers is probably about to scoop him up and throw him into a proper brig.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Moreland, who has more than 30 years experience sailing topsail schooners, brigantines, brigs and barques, as well as five world voyages under his belt, said the Picton Castle will be hosting a range of school groups on the vessel.
    Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 6 Mar. 2018
Noun
  • The presence of the Ohio—designed to launch up to 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles—follows China's deployment of its most advanced aircraft carrier, CNS Fujian, in the South China Sea for testing and training.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The only other aircraft carrier in the world that has the EMALS system is the US Navy’s newest carrier, the USS Gerald R Ford, which was certified for flight deck operations using the EMALS system in the spring of 2022.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025

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