yawl

Example Sentences

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In response to another negative comment, she wrote: “It’s tight on these kids right now. Let’s have a laugh and some compassion yawl !”

From Fox News • Apr. 6, 2020

Not only is Cheerio II, an 88-year-old wooden yawl, the oldest boat in the race, its skipper has been around the water even longer than it has.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2019

Benjamin has used viols and mandolin in previous works but never, as far as I know, the eerie yawl of a glass harmonica.

From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2013

To get out of the harbor, we’re being pushed by the Greyhound, the motor-equipped yawl that the French tows for those times when Mother Nature doesn’t cooperate.

From Washington Post

“Where yawl been? Around the world and back?”

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia