schooner

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Recent Examples of schooner Bob Dylan, too, passed through, once working with a local shipbuilder on a custom wooden schooner called Water Pearl, delighted that the unbothered locals did not recognize him. Elena Clavarino, Air Mail, 14 Feb. 2026 Although rescuers successfully saved the entire crew and their captain (who shared the schooner’s name), the vessel wasn’t so lucky. Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 28 Jan. 2026 The 98-foot-long schooner was built in Massachusetts in 1883. David Matthews, New York Daily News, 23 Jan. 2026 When the schooner was just off the coast of El Salvador, a tramp steamer spotted them and finally supplied fresh water. Michael Waters, New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for schooner
Recent Examples of Synonyms for schooner
Noun
  • Palm Beach Motor Yachts has taken its supermaxi sloop to new heights—quite literally.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Now as sailors stepped out into the surf, a great crowd tried to take oars off the first sloop.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History On Nov. 16, 1776, the Andrew Doria brigantine arrived in the Caribbean on the British colony St. Eustatius, waving the first national flag of the United States.
    Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2026
  • On December 4, 1872, sailors aboard the Canadian brigantine Dei Gratia spotted a ship named the Mary Celeste in the distance.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • In this environment of yachts, red carpets and excesses, the cast will give life to a new group of guests whose vacation, if the season follows tradition, will be cut short by a crime.
    Diego Parrado, Vanity Fair, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Gabriela Naranjo, Silversea’s vice president and general manager in Ecuador, told me at the beginning of our journey aboard the company's first destination-specific expedition yacht, Silver Origin.
    David Morris, Travel + Leisure, 26 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The ship's captain ordered the crew to the yawl boat.
    Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Captain William Griffin and his crew escaped, hopping on the ship’s yawl boat, in time to see the ship and its iron ore cargo vanish underwater.
    Brian Anthony Hernandez, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Panamax ketch features a sleek aluminum exterior, with a displacement hull and a distinctive pointed bow.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 July 2025
  • And through such buffetings Constance’s little ketch had run aground.
    Jim Shepard, New Yorker, 8 June 2025
Noun
  • The 3-billion-euro agreement included the purchase of 24 Rafale fighter jets and four state-of-the-art frigates including the Kimon, which Macron and Mitsotakis visited Saturday.
    ABC News, ABC News, 25 Apr. 2026
  • That’s exactly what happened, according to a report by The Register, where a Dutch journalist mailed a postcard with a tracker embedded in it to the HNLMS Evertsen, an air defense frigate on maneuvers escorting the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle.
    Alan Henry, PC Magazine, 24 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The excess metal goes into roll off boxes or lugger boxes at the customer's factory.
    Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 3 July 2025
  • One of the luggers offered her the pick of the litter but warned against some old chairs.
    Jake Offenhartz, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Divers and others can enhance their stay on The Explorer, the luxury live-aboard catamaran that caters to both Four Seasons's resorts.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Private speedboat or catamaran charters are nothing compared to the experience aboard the Friendship Rose, a classic Caribbean schooner with soaring sails built by hand on the sands of Bequia's Friendship Bay several decades ago.
    Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 22 Apr. 2026

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“Schooner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/schooner. Accessed 2 May. 2026.

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