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Recent Examples of whaleboat
In Robert Brill’s set, the stage is shaped like a half-pipe with rungs, so that cast members scramble, pitch, tumble, and row flimsy whaleboats over massive waves.
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Justin Davidson, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
On July 20, 1775, Major Joseph Vose and sixty Continental soldiers landed on Little Brewster in nimble whaleboats.
—Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
When a prime specimen was chosen, the men set off in a whaleboat rowed by a crew.
—Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2022
Setauket whaleboat captain Caleb Brewster, meanwhile, carried messages across Long Island Sound, between Setauket and Connecticut.
—Bill Bleyer, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2022
Mitch Brown, 27, and his girlfriend Yanna Xian, 24, were swimming on a whaleboat tour when a baby humpback approached them.
—People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 10 Jan. 2022
Justin Davidson, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2025
On July 20, 1775, Major Joseph Vose and sixty Continental soldiers landed on Little Brewster in nimble whaleboats.
—Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
When a prime specimen was chosen, the men set off in a whaleboat rowed by a crew.
—Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2022
Setauket whaleboat captain Caleb Brewster, meanwhile, carried messages across Long Island Sound, between Setauket and Connecticut.
—Bill Bleyer, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2022
Mitch Brown, 27, and his girlfriend Yanna Xian, 24, were swimming on a whaleboat tour when a baby humpback approached them.
—People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 10 Jan. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for whaleboat
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In 1855, the desk was recovered by an American whaler and Congress appropriated funding to refit the ship that the desk was on to England, as a gift to Queen Victoria.—
Greta Cross,
USA TODAY,
22 Feb. 2025
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The novel was inspired by both his experience as a whaler and the Essex tragedy.—
Emily Blackwood,
People.com,
8 Jan. 2025
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Rose’s father, Kommer, is among the few billionaires in the field, thanks to his idea of introducing standardization and modular manufacturing from the car industry to building workboats, which shorten delivery times and reduce production costs.—
Zinnia Lee,
Forbes,
19 Dec. 2024
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With little overt military value, Australia’s cheap-but-robust commercial workboats are subject to fierce debate.—
Craig Hooper,
Forbes,
3 May 2023
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The half-hour ferry ride there from the Chinese territory’s main island was bustling with day trippers.—
Erin Mendell,
New York Times,
3 Apr. 2025
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Three years after the space shuttle's retirement in 2011, NASA awarded multibillion-dollar contracts to Boeing and SpaceX to build ferry ships to carry astronauts to and from the space station.—
William Harwood,
CBS News,
31 Mar. 2025
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The upshot will be a mid-sized load-lugger that will hammers to 62mph in 3.6 seconds and from zero to 124mph in only 12.9 seconds, so the Europeans had better pack that luggage in snugly.—
Michael Taylor,
Forbes,
22 June 2022
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The wooden boats competed in skiff, workboat, lugger, trawler, runabout, sailboat and cruiser classes.—
Ann Benoit,
NOLA.com,
27 Oct. 2017
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This is the quartet’s 10th season aboard the 1898 steam ferryboat Berkeley.—
Beth Wood,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Mar. 2025
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Maritime Museum of San Diego seeks volunteers The nonprofit Maritime Museum of San Diego starts the next Docent Volunteer Training Program for newcomers Jan. 21 at the museum on the upper deck of the ferryboat Berkeley.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Jan. 2025
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Hardy grew up in the South Side Beverly neighborhood, where his father was a banker who at one time worked for Beverly Bank & Trust.—
Bob Goldsborough,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Mar. 2025
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Company lawyers and company investment bankers declined to comment on the value of the customer data.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
27 Mar. 2025
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For hardcore skiers, a night at the Sunshine Mountain Lodge, only accessible by gondola, is a must.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
3 Mar. 2025
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Minutes from Whistler Village, the resort offers easy access to shops, dining, the PEAK 2 PEAK gondola, and outdoor adventures like kayaking on Alta Lake. BANG FOR YOUR BUCK: 11 budget-friendly family vacations in the U.S. that really pack in the fun 4.—
Jean Chen Smith,
USA TODAY,
18 Jan. 2025
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Take a scenic cruise along Harbor Drive, where tuna seiners once tied up.—
San Diego Union-Tribune,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Oct. 2023
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Above the seiner, a seaplane soars towards the coastal mountains rising up and fading into the distant mist.—
David James,
Anchorage Daily News,
22 Apr. 2023
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“Whaleboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whaleboat. Accessed 6 Apr. 2025.
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