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
  • At Pinecrest Gardens every vine and curve of bark will seem to conspire with this myth of a nymph who, resisting the god’s advances, turns into a laurel tree.
    Guillermo Perez, Miami Herald, 5 May 2026
  • The bark is smooth and slate-gray with distinctive white longitudinal stripes that become more fissured and rough as the tree matures.
    SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 4 May 2026
Noun
  • Guests enjoy stand-up paddleboard yoga, hikes, a 62-foot luxury dinner yacht, and kids' programs (including Fun Mountain with an arcade, bowling, ropes course, climbing area, and more).
    Jess Hoffert, Midwest Living, 9 May 2026
  • And though the yacht is in fine shape and is an imposing 325 feet long, its old-fashioned proportions and Onassis’s designs for a hospitality-first party palace don’t necessarily match the preferences of today’s ultra-rich.
    Michael Ballaban, CNN Money, 9 May 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
  • 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
  • Tucked into the waterfront of the beloved oceanside town of Bar Harbor, West Street Hotel boasts lavish guest rooms with striking views of meandering sailboats and the craggy Atlantic coast.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 May 2026
  • In a post shared on X on Tuesday, May 5, the Coast Guard released two images of a sailboat, located near where Hooker went missing.
    Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 6 May 2026
Noun
  • Project leaders liken the task to building a ship inside a glass bottle—except the neck of the bottle is a mile long, and the ship is a one-tenth-scale aircraft carrier.
    Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 May 2026
  • France’s only aircraft carrier headed toward the Arabian Gulf, oil fell below $100 a barrel, and stocks rose on optimism that US-Iran talks could lead to a durable peace.
    Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 7 May 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 11 May. 2026.

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