speedboat

Example Sentences

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Ten of them this past week boarded a speedboat for what one of them told relatives was a fishing trip.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Lane Kiffin, by contrast, bailed on his players and now resembles a renegade pirate at the helm of a flashy speedboat — fast, loud, brash and obsessively searching for buried treasure.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2025

"Germany is not a speedboat, Germany is a large ship," he told an event hosted by the BDA employers' association.

From Barron's • Nov. 26, 2025

Just hours earlier, another ship in the same area was approached by a small speedboat but managed to evade it.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2025

They arrived by speedboat, opening up a Fof foam on the water, leaving behind a rainbow film of gasoline.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy