sailboat
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It’s almost like Joan’s is the motor on a sailboat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
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
He could not buy her a gray pony, a gold necklace, nor a little sailboat.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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In other ways, the campus resembles a summer camp with a tennis academy and sailboats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
The Mexican Navy was searching on Friday for two sailboats that went missing while transporting humanitarian aid to crisis-hit Cuba, a week after leaving Mexico.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
On the harbour, sailboats dotted the water - one of the best spots to watch the midnight fireworks display.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025
Say goodbye to the gold miner, agricultural lands, sailboats and the shape of the Golden State shown on the backgrounds of existing driver’s licenses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2025
A sail perhaps on ocean, next time, for Jonas had a memory of ocean, now, and knew what it was; he knew that there were sailboats there, too, in memories yet to be acquired.
From "The Giver" by Lois Lowry
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