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• The schooner took to sea with full-blown sails.From the entry full-blown
• The heavy and boat-shaped Conestoga wagon should not be confused with the lighter and cheaper prairie schooners that largely replaced them.From the entry Conestoga wagon
• A baffed-out old schooner called The Michigan was being sent over the cataract.2008, Hans Werner, "From sublime icon to camp spectacle" (review of Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power and Lies by Ginger Strand), Toronto…. From the entry baffed out
• The church there was built by wrecking the Frances Clayton, a goodsome schooner.2007, Homer Hickam, The Keeper's Son. From the entry goodsome
• In our tiny 30-foot schooner, the 40-foot (think four stories high) waves looked more like giant mountains hurtling at us.2022, Amour Vincit Omnia, “Why The Price Of Love Is Pain”, in Agapé, volume 22, number 1, page 5. From the entry cinch
• With only the most rudimentary navigational equipment, courageous captains regularly put their small schooners into doghole ports under extremely difficult conditions.2011, Stephen W. Hinch, Hiking & Adventure Guide to the Sonoma Coast & Russian River, page 12. From the entry doghole
• On the West Coast those most familiar were the steamer Beaver and the schooner Cadboro, both armed with cannon.2002, Jan Peterson, Black Diamond City: Nanaimo, the Victorian Era, Heritage House Publishing Co, →ISBN, page 25. From the entry HBC
• Horton, the Gloucester schooner forced into Guysborough, Nova Scotia, and stripped of its sails, is part of Gloucester lore.1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 227. From the entry rerig
• The schooner Onward, a threemasted vessel, owned by C.1905 March 1, “Pacific Coast Marine”, in Coast Seamen's Journal, volume 18, number 23, page 5. From the entry threemasted
• Butler's fast sailing schooner yacht America.quoted in 2024, David Gendell, The Last Days of the Schooner America (page 76). From the entry sea-wing
• Smaller cruisers bore a variety of rigs, mostly fore-and-aft in character, such as the single-masted cutter, the twin-masted schooner, or the two- or three-masted lugger.2014 February 28, Richard Woodman, The Sea Warriors: Fighting Captains and Frigate Warfare in the Age of Nelson, Seaforth Publishing…. From the entry twin-masted
• “The Lunenburg cure,” heavily salted on the schooners and then dried on flakes along the rocky sheltered coastline, was traded in the Caribbean.2011, Mark Kurlansky, Cod: A Biography Of The Fish That Changed The World, Vintage Canada, →ISBN, page 128. From the entry Lunenburg cure
• The captain of the schooner told me also that he was going to Ponape and the Liukiu Islands, then he would return directly home.2009 [1898], Jenichiro Oyabe, “Wandering on the South Sea”, in Greg Robinson, Yujin Yaguchi, editors, A Japanese Robinson Crusoe…. From the entry Liukiu
• Fortunately, once in the beergarden with the good Doctor and a cold and frothy schooner of the amber nectar, everything fell into place.2004, Ken Ewell, Voyages of Discovery: A Manly Adventure in the Lands Down Under, page 22. From the entry amber nectar
• "The Lunenburg cure," heavily salted on the schooners and then dried on flakes along the rocky sheltered coastline, was traded in the Caribbean.1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 128. From the entry cure
• Six New Englanders broke into a warehouse at night, took the impounded gear, rerigged the schooner, and slipped away on the flood tide.1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 227. From the entry rerig
• The Long Tom in the stern of the schooner opened fire . . . and two men were seen to go down.1919, Joseph A. Altsheler, chapter 5, in The Sun Of Quebec. From the entry taste of one's own medicine
• It happened one year, early in the last century, when a doghole schooner foundered , and the poor young man was drowned along with several sailors.2017, M Dressler, The Last to See Me. From the entry doghole
• We crossed to the pub on the corner of Carlisle Street and I ordered two schooners of old for him and one of light for me.2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 117. From the entry light
• During the contest, participants sit at pokie machines and accurately insert coin after coin into the smallest of holes, while all the time consuming more and more schooners.2000, Ken Ewell, No Worries, Mate: A Manly Adventure in the Land Down Under, page 68. From the entry pokie machine
• I was unable to handle a brig (which the Hispaniola should have been), but I thought I could make shift to sail her as a schooner without public shame.1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Art of Writing. From the entry make shift
• The schooner ploughed on Northerly for a minute longer, before tacking again to lay herself half a mile in advance of the nearer corvette, now up on their larboard quarter.2004, Dewey Lambdin, Havoc's Sword. From the entry larboard

Meaning of schooner

1. noun A sailing ship with two or more masts, all with fore-and-aft sails; if two masted, having a foremast and a mainmast.
2. noun A glass for drinking a large measure of sherry.
3. noun A glass of beer, of a size which varies between states (Wikipedia).

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Questions about schooner in a sentence

How do you use schooner in a sentence?

Schooner is used as a noun. For example: “The schooner took to sea with full-blown sails.”

What is a short sentence with schooner?

“Butler's fast sailing schooner yacht America.”

What does schooner mean?

Schooner means a sailing ship with two or more masts, all with fore-and-aft sails; if two masted, having a foremast and a mainmast.