pleasure boat

Example Sentences

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“Hollywood” is that acquittal, that glorious quitting of sorrow in search of the pleasure boat.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2023

Welcome to one of the French capital's newest tourist attractions: an amphibious bus that drives along the city streets, and then converts instantly into a river-going pleasure boat.

From Reuters • Aug. 26, 2021

This week, the family and their apparatchiks meet in a ludicrously outsized pleasure boat to feign relaxation as they putter around the Mediterranean sipping burgundy and champagne while scheming about who should take the fall.

From Slate • Oct. 14, 2019

During Seafair 2015, a 32-year-old man drowned in Lake Washington after he jumped off a pleasure boat following the hydroplane races.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 7, 2017

But Coyotito—he was the one—he wore a blue sailor suit from the United States and a little yachting cap such as Kino had seen once when a pleasure boat put into the estuary.

From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck