ketch
Example Sentences
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One was a former merchant marine whose wooden 32-foot ketch was barely adequate for a journey through the punishing Southern Ocean.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
A recent addition comes from Sam Keck Scott, who in the summer of 2010 helped to sail a restored Dutch ketch from Malta to Singapore, crossing the Arabian Sea.
From Scientific American • Jul. 23, 2022
Errol Flynn regularly sailed through on his ketch, Sirocco; Colette wrote books at her bungalow; and Coco Chanel and Jean Cocteau vacationed here.
From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2020
Thornton has entered his 104-foot ketch Whitehawk in the cruising division of the 111th edition of the world’s oldest annual freshwater distance race.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 11, 2019
Did he wade in de lake and uh alligator ketch him?”
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
