tall ship

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Recent Examples of tall ship Hailing from San Francisco, Lenora Lee Dance company will perform a slate of dance vignettes on the 1885 tall ship Wavertree, which is permanently moored at Pier 16 at the South Street Seaport Museum. Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 23 May 2024 The idea that people won’t come downtown without a major investment and project has already been proven false by the crowds that attended the German Christmas marketplace and filled the promenade recently on a warm Sunday when the only attraction was one tall ship. Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 13 Mar. 2024 While some smaller sailing companies rely more fully on a where-the-wind-takes-you approach, with no set route or cruising speeds, larger tall ship lines like Star Clippers have itineraries to keep. Elissa Garay, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Oct. 2023 The Dutch tall ship Oosterschelde began its two year mission as a floating laboratory, where about 200 conservationists and naturalists will gather along the way to take part in a project called Darwin200. Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 Aug. 2023 See All Example Sentences for tall ship
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Noun
  • The kit campaign is to alert soccer fans and the public about the environmental crisis caused by the algae, that has most likely arrived in Spanish waters through the ballast waters of merchant ships.
    Claire Poole, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
  • In addition, the United States could arm more of its ships that don’t currently carry missiles, such as its amphibious or support vessels, or even prepare to convert merchant ships to carry missiles, as a way to rapidly increase the fleet with which the Chinese navy would have to contend.
    Stephen Biddle, Foreign Affairs, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Spread it 2 to 3 inches deep and keep it an inch away from the bark of the stems.
    Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 12 Apr. 2025
  • The hostages had also written on bark leaves with charcoal and hidden the messages under stones and in trees in the hope that someone would find them.
    Lise Pedersen, Variety, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Nobody would have expected Donald Trump – the guy gracing tabloids for yacht parties and messy divorces – to ever, in a million years, become the face of the movement.
    Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2025
  • The complaint detailed the October 2019 meeting on a yacht in Doha, Qatar, between McKillen and Hamad bin Khalifa to discuss the opportunity for the royal family to acquire the California hotel, then known as the Montage Beverly Hills.
    Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Help hoist the sails of the Schooner Freedom, a massive topsail schooner captained by John and Sarah Zaruba.
    Kara Franker, Southern Living, 13 Apr. 2025
  • Renamed Magic Circle, Guthrie’s schooner became a lowly minesweeper along the Scottish coast.
    Tristan Rutherford, Robb Report, 3 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The closest beach is Catalans, about a 25-minute walk from Old Port or a 10-minute ride on bus 83, passing gently bobbing sailboats.
    Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The story follows Meyers from a young age, a multi-talented surfer and sailboat designer who found inspiration in the world of kit cars and off-roading, before achieving almost overnight success with the first Manx.
    Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Even if one of the arriving Republic cruisers is probably about to scoop him up and throw him into a proper brig.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Meanwhile, any question that Jod and Captain Silvo (the pirate whose crew mutinied in the series premiere) are one and the same was dismissed, when Brutus and his crew spoke of how Silvo had escaped the brig before facing a trial.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 10 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • Moreland, who has more than 30 years experience sailing topsail schooners, brigantines, brigs and barques, as well as five world voyages under his belt, said the Picton Castle will be hosting a range of school groups on the vessel.
    Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 6 Mar. 2018
Noun
  • The Pentagon has deployed the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier into the Central Command's (CENTCOM) area of responsibility, alongside the USS Harry S. Truman.
    Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
  • The presence of at least six US B-2 stealth bombers in the Indian Ocean and a second aircraft carrier in the Middle East only fueled speculation in Israel that a strike was not only possible, but increasingly probable.
    Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 9 Apr. 2025

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