How to Use sailboat in a Sentence

sailboat

noun
  • To take to the open sea in a 42-foot sailboat is to risk it all.
    — CBS News, 5 Sep. 2017
  • The men who fell off the boat were able to swim to a nearby sailboat.
    — Amir Vera and Melissa Alonso, CNN, 11 Oct. 2020
  • Aboard a small sailboat, two men waved their arms, and a flag.
    — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2022
  • His sailboat was out of the water on boat stands when the surge picked up.
    — Li Cohen, CBS News, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Who would want to captain a sailboat in pumps and a dress?
    — Abby Gardner, Allure, 10 Aug. 2019
  • The best way to see each island is by rental car and sailboat.
    — Lauren Mowery, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • The men watched the top of the sailboat’s mast disappear beneath the swells.
    — Tomas Weber, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2024
  • Search crews found the suit, which would have kept him dry, on the sailboat Friday.
    — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 30 July 2023
  • There were a total of 132 people on the sailboat, the Coast Guard said.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 11 Feb. 2025
  • Dancers thrashed atop the sailboat, but SZA escaped, taking to the sky in a life raft.
    — Jaelani Turner-Williams, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The sailboats in the force ranged from day cruisers to 150-foot racing yachts.
    — David Wolman, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Got stuck on a wooden sailboat in a storm off the coast of Mozambique.
    — Ruthie Ackerman, Vogue, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The14-foot white and blue sailboat may have been the craft the two missing people were aboard.
    — David Owens, courant.com, 29 May 2018
  • In the quiet of a Bering Sea sailboat, hunters could sneak up on bowheads.
    — Lisa Demer, Alaska Dispatch News, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Pfeifer’s son keeps the 18-foot Hobie Cat sailboat at his own home.
    — Stephanie Pagones, Fox News, 11 Sep. 2020
  • In the heaving seas of the Southern Ocean, a small, red-hulled sailboat tossed and rolled, at the mercy of the tail end of a tempest.
    — Longreads, 5 Oct. 2022
  • In the summer, launch free kayaks, canoes, SUPs, or a sailboat from the dock, or opt for the ocean, five miles away.
    — Alison Van Houten, Outside Online, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Behind the porch, four sunny rooms span the front of the house and share the same panorama of water, freighters and sailboats.
    — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2017
  • The use of cedar plugs dates back more than 150 years, to the coast of France, where anglers trolled them for tuna on sailboats.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Worked as a crew member on a sailboat that traveled along the East Coast and to the Caribbean.
    — CNN, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The worst my father-in-law ever did to me was serve Genesse Cream Ale on his sailboat.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2019
  • The book describes his two decades of work scouring the world’s oceans for microbes from a 100-foot sailboat.
    — David Ewing Duncan, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Ever seen footage of a whale passing by a tiny sailboat or kayak?
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Those worries are a moot point with the Tiwal 3, a crazy-cool sailboat that can fit in the trunk of your car.
    — Madison Flager, House Beautiful, 30 Oct. 2018
  • This shimmering tower of blue and white glass is shaped like the jib of a sailboat bound for shore.
    — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2019
  • In a May 4 incident in the Strait of Gibraltar, a group of three orcas pierced the rudder of a sailboat.
    — Laura Barcella, Peoplemag, 25 May 2023
  • So the sailboat remains anchored, a blue tarp pulled taut over its deck.
    — Laurel Wamsley, NPR, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Reaching the docks along the Cape Fear River, the men commandeered a small sailboat.
    — New York Times, 17 June 2022
  • In severe cases, the stranded are brought aboard the sailboat.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Out of thin air, the generative AI suddenly advised me to chuck my investments and buy a sailboat.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024

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