sailboat

Example Sentences

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Maybe you have looked at the clouds and imagined a sailboat, a seahorse, or even your great-aunt Rosemary staring back at you.

From Science Daily • May 14, 2026

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

Legally speaking, this makes owning a mobile home more akin to owning a motorcycle or sailboat than a single-family home.

From Salon • Mar. 16, 2025

His jacket had gone with the smashed sailboat, his handkerchief with the catamaran.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig