beamy

Example Sentences

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“Have you guys ever heard of CrossFit?” asked Jill with a beamy smile. 

From Salon • Sep. 8, 2013

Gathered speed at the narratives end puts Show Boat over the sandbars�a deep-draft, beamy vessel; a gorgeous excursion.

From Time Magazine Archive

Over them a short but beamy shag-pate, Caleb Gare, walking as though bent against a wind, whispering greedily to his black acres, caressing his blue-flowered flax in secret, eyeing his sows by lantern-light.

From Time Magazine Archive

Built in secrecy at a cost of $300,000, she is what her builders call a "beamy cutter," shaped like a wine glass and 1� ft. wider than normal for 12-meter yachts.

From Time Magazine Archive

The fact is, Mr Grenvile, that these here shallow, beamy craft ain’t intended to sail on their sides; bury ’em below their sheer-strake and they begins to drag and to sag at once.

From A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron by Hodgson, Edward S.