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How to use sailboat in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun, verb

Sailboat means a boat propelled by a sail. Example: “Watch that small sailboat; see how Stephanie mans the rudder?”

More sentences with sailboat

  • Watch that small sailboat; see how Stephanie mans the rudder?From the entry mans
  • A gold tie clip was made in the shape of a sailboat.1993 August, Paul Kemprecos, chapter 11, in Feeding Frenzy (An Aristotle ‘Soc’ Socarides Mystery; 4), New York, N.Y.: A Perfect Crime…. From the entry nauticalness
  • I'm a technonerd about all things that concern airplanes and sailboats.1989 March, Flying Magazine, volume 116, number 3, page 104. From the entry technonerd
  • The New York Museum of Modern Art recently mishung a cut-and-pasted gouache of a sailboat and reflection by Henri Matisse.1962, The Music Magazine and Musical Courier, page 31. From the entry mishang
  • They were all single-masted, slooplike little sailboats, around 40 feet in length, with enclosed decks and an engine.1958, Theodora Cope Stanwell-Fletcher, Clear lands and icy seas: a voyage to the eastern Arctic. From the entry slooplike
  • "My father was a sailboat freak.1993, John Sandford, Winter Prey, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, pages 118–119. From the entry pac boot
  • Unfortunately, low winds were the rule over the local waters and this craft was no better, if as good, as ordinary sailboats under such conditions.1989, Bernard Smith, Sailloons and Fliptackers: The Limits to High-speed Sailing, →ISBN. From the entry low
  • As the owner of this sailboat, I fuss about on deck, lashing down oars and fishing rods, pigsticks and awnings, for what might be a bouncy overnight passage.1997 July, Yachting, volume 181, number 7, page 70. From the entry pigstick
  • People along rivers and the coast who used rowboats and small sailboats for fishing and ferrying learned to dread the sound of a paddlewheeler coming through the mist.1987, Bob Whittier, Paddle wheel steamers and their giant engines, page 39. From the entry paddlewheeler
  • ARNOLD KENT and MARINA GOYA, interpretative dancers are respectively a stowaway and a sailorette on a sailboat which, strangely enough, is manned by young, romantic gals.1943 February 27, The Billboard, page 104. From the entry fisherette
  • The ogopogo made no attempt to devour the sailboat crew, as he is reported to have done some years ago in the case of some Indians.1930 July 19, “Mysterious Ogopogo Is Accused of Capsizing a Canadian Boat”, in The New York Times, page 17. From the entry Ogopogo

Meaning of sailboat

  1. noun A boat propelled by a sail.
  2. noun A playing card with the rank of four.
  3. verb To travel by sailboat.

Full definition of sailboat

Questions about sailboat in a sentence

How do you use sailboat in a sentence?
Sailboat is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Watch that small sailboat; see how Stephanie mans the rudder?”
What is a short sentence with sailboat?
“"My father was a sailboat freak.”
What does sailboat mean?
Sailboat means a boat propelled by a sail.

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