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

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

A pilot friend who is crossing the Atlantic from the Canary Islands in a sailboat this month called cruise ships a “floating petri dish.‘

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025

Not to point fingers, but if you’re taking a sailboat through possibly dinosaur-infested waters, whatever happens is on you.

From Salon • Jul. 3, 2025

I was reading in Central Park, at the sailboat lake, when four of them came along.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers