tall ship

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Recent Examples of tall ship Sail Boston 2026 is also expected to draw huge crowds to Boston Harbor, where dozens of tall ships will be on display from July 11 to July 16 as part of the America 250 celebrations. Neal Riley, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2026 Windjammers are traditional tall ships powered by harnessing the force of the wind. Allison Tibaldi, USA Today, 18 Apr. 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 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
  • By the way, the dragon turned out to be a small Nile crocodile, which may have escaped from a merchant ship.
    Norma Meyer, Oc Register, 27 May 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • Incense usually comes in either cone or stick form and is composed of fragrant material — usually resins, seeds, barks and flowers — that’s bound together using a combustible material.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 17 June 2026
  • Remove the bark and scrape away the green cambium layer beneath it.
    Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 15 June 2026
Noun
  • Best Nightlife Pink Pony A Mackinac Island icon since 1948, Pink Pony on Main Street is the place to be for live music, particularly during the island’s famous yacht races in summer.
    Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2026
  • At 162 meters long and designed to support up to 130 scientists, engineers, crew members and operators, RV11000 is closer to a floating exploration platform than a luxury explorer yacht.
    Dea Jusufi, Forbes.com, 13 June 2026
Noun
  • When the perilous search for the Northwest Passage sparked a wave of popular interest in the Arctic, Church set off by schooner in search of icebergs.
    Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 13 June 2026
  • The museum’s centerpiece is the historic Percy & Small Shipyard, the nation’s only surviving shipyard from the large wooden vessel era and the site where the giant schooner Wyoming was built.
    USA TODAY Network, USA Today, 10 June 2026
Noun
  • Word around baseball is all the losing has turned the Mets clubhouse, which has already been fractured these past couple years, into a joyless brig.
    Bill Madden, New York Daily News, 2 May 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • Around the world, sharks are washing ashore with their livers removed with chilling precision while in the Strait of Gibraltar, orcas are targeting sailboats – ramming hulls, crippling rudders, and sinking vessels.
    Denise Petski, Deadline, 18 June 2026
  • Crossing the street to the sailboats for a sunset excursion takes grit, but hotel staff can escort you.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 June 2026
Noun
  • America’s longest serving aircraft carrier, too big to transit the Panama Canal, saw action for nearly half a century, from Vietnam through Operation Desert Storm and now serves as a museum in San Diego.
    Greg Engle, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • And everyone saw this aircraft carrier.
    David Frum, The Atlantic, 17 June 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 21 Jun. 2026.

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