tall ship

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Recent Examples of tall ship Apparently, that's when all the tall ships go on a trip together. Mike Miller, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Jan. 2026 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
  • Four of the ships were tankers carrying crude oil or chemicals, with the majority of the rest bulk carriers, a kind of merchant ship carrying dry cargo.
    NBC News, NBC news, 10 Apr. 2026
  • On the threat to merchant ships, Trump projected uncertainty.
    Ana Ceballos, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The wing’s bark pairs with plenty of bite.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 24 Apr. 2026
  • There were no skeletons at the bottom, just various farm implements (an axe, a bark spud used for peeling bark off fresh tree trunks, a chain, and various minor trinkets).
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Crews uncovered the marble slab while excavating the site of the Mentor, a brig owned by Thomas Bruce, the British soldier and diplomat known as Lord Elgin, according to Greece's Ministry of Culture and BBC News, a CBS News partner.
    Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Rules of engagement are also on the law books, so--if for no other reason--American troops follow them to stay out of the brig.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 14 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Amy Morin and her husband packed up some clothing, their laptops, their dog and cat and made the move from a house in Maine to a sailboat in the Florida Keys in December 2015.
    Amy Morin, CNBC, 21 Apr. 2026
  • In a video posted by TikTok user @livingmyloylife, which was later stitched by the official Carnival Cruise account, an orange rescue boat is seen bobbing through choppy waters to meet the sailboat.
    Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 17 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • That warship, an expeditionary sea base, is about the size of an aircraft carrier and can support helicopters and special forces.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The aircraft carrier, which measures about 1,106 feet in length and displaces over 100,000 tons, is now fully mission capable.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 20 Apr. 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 30 Apr. 2026.

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