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

The author recounts the stories of three contestants in the 1968 Golden Globe around-the-world solo sailboat race.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

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

Once, he and Jutta built a little sailboat from scraps of wood and carried it to the river.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr