How to Use schooner in a Sentence

schooner

noun

• During its time, the schooner was one of the many ships used for the cross-lake grain trade.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
• The 1886 Goelet Cup for schooner racing was made by Tiffany.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 29 June 2019
• A year later, in 2019, the schooner Clotilda was found.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Jan. 2022
• The 81-foot schooner takes guests around the nearby islands and through the seaport.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2023
• This allows the schooner to catch the light like a crystal while cruising the high seas.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 12 Aug. 2022
• The schooner sleeps up to 16 guests in eight spacious cabins.
  — Fran Golden, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Mar. 2021
• The lines between the steamer and schooner barges were cut and Ironton’s crew was adrift in the dark.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
• Crosby sailed the world in a 59-foot Honduran mahogany schooner called the Mayan.
  — Steve Chawkins, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2023
• The new one is the schooner Matthew Turner, the first big wooden vessel built in the Bay Area in more than 85 years.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 22 June 2019
• Crosby once sailed the world in a 59-foot Honduran mahogany schooner called the Mayan.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2023
• The schooner Tara has made its way around the ocean, collecting samples from the surface to the depths and from pole to pole.
  — Quanta Magazine, 25 Apr. 2019
• On the ocean, a schooner could sail in a storm for days before the storm blew itself out, Baillod said.
  — Talia Soglin, chicagotribune.com, 8 July 2021
• In 1916, the Arctic power schooner Great Bear ran afoul of the mists and wrecked on Pinnacle.
  — Sarah Gilman, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Oct. 2020
• The chilled schooner is brimming with large tail-on, cocktail shrimp in a tangy and slightly sweet sauce.
  — Courtney Dabney, star-telegram, 22 May 2018
• The mission to find the Endurance was a far cry from Shackleton’s voyage on the 144-foot schooner.
  — Abigail Barronian, Outside Online, 7 Dec. 2022
• Freitas had taken a group of clients for a spin on his 80-foot schooner, Adirondack.
  — John Hanc, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2021
• The weather was rough, and strong winds pushed the two schooners perilously close to the disabled steamer.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 Mar. 2023
• Start at the southern edge of Lake Huron and watch the tall ship schooners or shop in the downtown antiques market in Bay City.
  — Claire Trageser, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2023
• In total, 109 men, women, and children survived the crossing in the hold of the schooner Clotilda.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2019
• City Dock, once a shipping hub, now acts as a host to schooners and other boats waiting to set sail on the Chesapeake Bay.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 25 July 2023
• For years, the two of us have been charting a bloody course across the briny blue, looting every schooner fool enough to drift into our ken.
  — Simon Rich, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2020
• The schooner Clotilda anchors off the Alabama coast near Grand Bay.
  — al, 28 Nov. 2019
• The old schooner Jackson had sailed around the South Pacific sank in the bay one day and was pulled up onto the beach and became the shipwreck bar.
  — Hugh Garvey, Sunset Magazine, 6 Nov. 2023
• In 1860, the schooner Clotilda sneaked through the waters off Mobile, Ala., and up into rivers nearby.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2022
• Scic has a fleet of classic ketch yachts with modern schooner rigging and sails with a surface area of around 4,300 square feet.
  — Ann Abel, Forbes, 27 June 2022
• A year before, the captain of a South African schooner docked at the yacht basin had vanished after killing his first mate with a machete.
  — Andrea Lee, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
• The storm cut all telegraph lines between Boston and New York and capsized a schooner, killing 11 crew members.
  — Jeff Martin, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Sep. 2023
• The Clotilda, a wooden schooner, was the last ship known to bring captives to the American South from Africa for enslavement.
  — Jay Reeves, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2022
• Most of the passengers — none of whom would have reboarded the steamer anyway — hired a whaling schooner to take them to St. Michael.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2022
• For 2023, Hyundai gave its three-row schooner a facelift and additional equipment.
  — Caleb Miller, Car and Driver, 15 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024