sailboat

Example Sentences

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With her and their two sons, Whittaker lived on a sailboat for four years in the late 1990s, traveling around the Pacific with stops in Tahiti, Fiji and Australia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

Vaughan had been on the boat with her husband and two children, aged 12 and eight, and had been sunbathing when the motorboat crashed into a sailboat carrying party-goers.

From Barron's • Nov. 21, 2025

On the front of the postcard you can see our workboat Nemo and our sailboat Fonn, where we live.

From BBC • Jun. 20, 2025

Someone on the sailboat alerted the Coast Guard to their disappearance around 8 p.m.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2025

“Hey! I’ve got an idea,” I’d told him, tossing a glance at the sailboat.

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings