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
  • Under the cover of night on July 30, 1949, the Amethyst quenched all its lights on board and shadowed a passing Chinese merchant ship, the Kiangling Liberation, following it through the tricky shoals of the river.
    Anne Ewbank, Popular Science, 18 Feb. 2026
  • One way of handling the drone threat would be to arm merchant ships and equip them with sensor suites.
    David Szondy February 15, New Atlas, 15 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Infection occurs when the tree's bark is damaged by insects, animals, or mechanical wounds, causing the soft wood to deteriorate quickly and make the trunk and branches susceptible to breakage.
    Samantha Johnson, Martha Stewart, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Small cottony clusters may appear on branches, in cracks in the bark, on roots, or on the undersides of leaves.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 4 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Perhaps most importantly, the yacht can be customized, with a series of options tailored to the owner’s preferences.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Besides fewer people on board, the luxury yachts are small, which is beneficial not only for the onboard experience (hello, getting to know other people really well), but also for the more unique ports of call, thanks to the ship’s size.
    Megan duBois, USA Today, 26 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Bob Dylan, too, passed through, once working with a local shipbuilder on a custom wooden schooner called Water Pearl, delighted that the unbothered locals did not recognize him.
    Elena Clavarino, Air Mail, 14 Feb. 2026
  • The bones belonged to Henry Goodsell, the captain of another 19th-century schooner.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 31 Jan. 2026
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
  • While on a very long sailboat race last week, my partner expounded on the Great Filter theory.
    Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Set the scene Nearly all guests arrive the most comfortable way, connecting through San Juan on a Tradewind Aviation prop plane to Tortola's Beef Island, a 90-minute ride low enough to count the sailboats moored off Virgin Gorda.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Also Friday, the massive American aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald Ford, arrived off Israel’s coast.
    Dan Mangan, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2026
  • French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, who also visited the Charles de Gaulle, emphasized that the security of the aircraft carrier wasn’t threatened.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 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 7 Mar. 2026.

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