tall ship
Example Sentences
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Memoir ‘All Hands on Deck’ recalls the voyage of a tall ship from Rhode Island to San Diego, where it became the HMS Surprise in the movie ‘Master and Commander.’
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2023
Sometime in the 1730s, Johann and Balthazar Hieronymus left their home along the Rhine River and set out for Rotterdam, where they boarded the Two Brothers, a tall ship bound for Philadelphia.
From Slate • Mar. 4, 2023
Instead of arriving overland, the symbolic flame alighting the 2024 Paris Games will take to the seas from its birthplace in Greece, arriving aboard a three-masted tall ship in the French port of Marseille.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2023
The famous landmark was scheduled to open this afternoon to allow a large wooden tall ship through, but it appears to have become jammed in place.
From BBC • Aug. 9, 2021
“What are ye, bearers of armor, dressed in mail-coats, that have thus come riding your tall ship over the sea- road, winter-cold ocean, here to Daneland?”
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
