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

It was taken by crew members on a ketch that sailed near the island of Java in the summer of 2019.

From Scientific American • Jul. 20, 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

“Less ketch Matt’s mule fuh ’im and have some fun.”

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston