sloop
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Look at him in the photograph here, circa 1977, the year he won the America’s Cup helming the 12-meter sloop, Courageous.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
Marks told Barron’s in 2021 that he owns a Danish-built sloop named Linnea that he had been fixing up for years, and sailed it in the Chesapeake Bay.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2025
I had a Baltic 37, a sloop, that was a beautiful sailing boat, and I’d go out with a couple of friends and enjoy the day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2024
Morford-Haines returned to Seattle from Alaska, bought a 25-foot sloop and taught herself to sail.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2023
Wright had also written to Admiral Thomas Graves, Gage’s naval commander, asking for “immediate assistance” and “a sloop of war of some sort.”
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
Small, shallow-draft scows then took the stones to much bigger schooners or sloops, anchored in deeper water, for the trip up the Potomac.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2021
In the 1800s, long before social distancing, the Delaware River in Philadelphia was clogged with sloops, barges, and packet ships hauling cargo and immigrants here.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 21, 2020
It used to be that the waters were filled mostly with tugboats, fishing boats, sloops and the occasional mammoth steamship pulling in from Europe after the long crossing.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 21, 2014
It already was a rare craft, a mahogany schooner racing across the ocean against a pack of sloops and yawls.
From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2013
Up and down the river, an assortment of tall ships with black hulls—schooners and sloops dating from the previous century—also lay at anchor.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
Vocabulary lists containing sloop
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
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