sloop

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Recent Examples of sloop Now as sailors stepped out into the surf, a great crowd tried to take oars off the first sloop. Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026 Anguilla's rich sailing history comes alive while exploring the island's coastline on a classic Caribbean sloop. Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 28 Dec. 2025 Inspired by the original 1926 Q Class sloop, known as Q7 Falcon, aka Lively Lady, which Peter sails regularly around San Diego. Kathleen Turner, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025 From Ocean Swell to Living-Room Calm Industrial designer Roey Pan sketched the first arc aboard a 27-ft sloop, tracing the way a mainsail breathes with the wind. Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 23 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sloop
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Noun
  • The 80-foot schooner provides passengers with an interactive sailing experience with spectacular views of the New England coastline.
    Rachel Holt, CBS News, 17 May 2026
  • Private speedboat or catamaran charters are nothing compared to the experience aboard the Friendship Rose, a classic Caribbean schooner with soaring sails built by hand on the sands of Bequia's Friendship Bay several decades ago.
    Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 22 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Founded in 2016 by Raaghav Belavadi, the company began as a luxury car rental platform in Bangalore before rapidly expanding into private jets, yachts, helicopters, concierge services, and international luxury experiences.
    Peter Lyon, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • The perfect yacht charter rarely happens by accident.
    Rachel Ingram, Robb Report, 16 May 2026
Noun
  • Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History On Nov. 16, 1776, the Andrew Doria brigantine arrived in the Caribbean on the British colony St. Eustatius, waving the first national flag of the United States.
    Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2026
  • On December 4, 1872, sailors aboard the Canadian brigantine Dei Gratia spotted a ship named the Mary Celeste in the distance.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The Panamax ketch features a sleek aluminum exterior, with a displacement hull and a distinctive pointed bow.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 July 2025
  • And through such buffetings Constance’s little ketch had run aground.
    Jim Shepard, New Yorker, 8 June 2025
Noun
  • There are other reasons for sending the frigates, however.
    Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 11 May 2026
  • Raytheon will provide SeaRAM launchers, Blast Test Vehicles, and technical services for the first three frigates now under construction in Japan.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 11 May 2026
Noun
  • The ship's captain ordered the crew to the yawl boat.
    Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Captain William Griffin and his crew escaped, hopping on the ship’s yawl boat, in time to see the ship and its iron ore cargo vanish underwater.
    Brian Anthony Hernandez, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Kayak, paddleboard, snorkel, or take a catamaran tour.
    Essence, Essence, 13 May 2026
  • Others kick things up by arranging private beach bonfires in the evening, catamaran outings by day, surf lessons with Engstrom Surf, and even customized tarot card readings.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 May 2026
Noun
  • Blasetti is facing grand larceny charges for allegedly swiping a keelboat from the Dyckman Marina in Inwood around noon Saturday and rowed it to a trimaran moored out in the Hudson River.
    Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 24 July 2025
  • Most of the time, a small keelboat barely exceeds 10 knots of speed (11.5mph).
    Andrew Rice, The Athletic, 13 Mar. 2025

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“Sloop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sloop. Accessed 21 May. 2026.

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