sailboat

Example Sentences

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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

In the coming days, the sailboat plans to leave the four men behind.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 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

Although I grew up in the Great Lakes region, I’d never sailed before and didn’t realize there are no passengers on a sailboat — only crew.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 8, 2025

And there, upside down and half-sunk at the top of the heap … was that the sailboat she’d been on?

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz