ketch

Example Sentences

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One was a former merchant marine whose wooden 32-foot ketch was barely adequate for a journey through the punishing Southern Ocean.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

It was taken by crew members on a ketch that sailed near the island of Java in the summer of 2019.

From Scientific American • Jul. 20, 2022

From horizon to horizon, from stern to bow, the sea all around them was glowing as their 52-foot-long ketch passed south of the Indonesian island of Java on a moonless night.

From New York Times • Jul. 16, 2022

Errol Flynn regularly sailed through on his ketch, Sirocco; Colette wrote books at her bungalow; and Coco Chanel and Jean Cocteau vacationed here.

From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2020

“B’lieve Ah done cut uh hawg, so Ah guess Ah better ketch air.”

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston