schooner
Example Sentences
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Hundreds of clippers, schooners, sloops, barges, ferries, and steamboats raised and lowered their flags to honor the Arctic heroes.
From Literature
“Imagine! A little three-masted schooner made of gold, sailing across the sky!”
From Literature
Behind them is the Bel Espoir, a schooner vessel on which the youths -- whether from Libya and Egypt or France and Bosnia -- have been sailing the Mediterranean to promote peace.
From Barron's
Lake Superior’s first known commercial casualty, in 1816, was a schooner with a name that suggests hubris: the Invincible.
In early January, excitement builds aboard the Avontuur - a 100-year-old schooner - as it sets sail from Germany and heads towards the rough waters of the North Sea.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
