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sailboat

[seyl-boht] / ˈseɪlˌboʊt /


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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

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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