How to Use speedboat in a Sentence

speedboat

noun

• The boat was a small speedboat and there were only 10 of us on the boat.
  — Kayla Brock, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Aug. 2023
• Change moves at the speed of an ocean liner and not a speedboat.
  — NBC News, 4 Mar. 2022
• This new video seems to show a much smaller ship, about the size of a speedboat.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Apr. 2019
• The lake is small and quiet, big enough for one speedboat/Jet Ski at a time.
  — Star Tribune, 6 May 2021
• The ministry said troops returned fire, killing one of those aboard the speedboat.
  — Andrea RodrÍguez, ajc, 28 June 2022
• The footage shows the Coast Guard vessel and an unmarked speedboat circling the dinghy.
  — Sarah Almukhtar, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
• On the show The Boys, a speedboat smashes into a cetacean and the humans emerge unscathed.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 14 Sep. 2020
• Most of these boats are not warships, but small speedboats.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 27 Aug. 2018
• In front of him, on the Rio Grande, the Border Patrol’s marine unit zoomed past in speedboats.
  — Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 24 May 2018
• There were two welcome drinks: fruit juice on the speedboat and Champagne on the island.
  — Tom Weijand, Robb Report, 9 Nov. 2023
• For the final trip, the three men each chipped in around $1,300 to buy the inflatable speedboat with twin engines.
  — Joyu Wang, WSJ, 20 June 2021
• The speedboat is believed to have hit rough waters, which led it to capsize.
  — Kalhan Rosenblatt, NBC News, 24 July 2022
• Others among the dozen who fled in the speedboat have already been punished for their roles in the failed escape plan.
  — Natasha Khan, WSJ, 15 July 2022
• Affleck, 50, and Lopez, 53, took a ride aboard a speedboat on the lake, as seen in photos obtained by Page Six.
  — Staff Author Published, Peoplemag, 24 Aug. 2022
• Hurwitz hired his own private speedboat for about $40 from a dock 20 minutes north of the city.
  — Laura Mallonee, WIRED, 17 Apr. 2018
• His home studio overlooks half a dozen speedboats idled at a dock.
  — Jeff Weiss, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• Don't take the Seadog speedboat sightseeing tour from Navy Pier.
  — Paul Brady, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Feb. 2018
• From here, tourists take either a speedboat or a seaplane to their resort on the island of choice.
  — Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 4 June 2022
• Belt emerged from the left-field corner, at Oracle Park, standing in the back of a speedboat pulled by a truck along the third-base stands.
  — New York Times, 24 Apr. 2022
• Guests fly in the hotel's eight-seat plane to its private airstrip, then finish up the journey on a speedboat to the hotel.
  — Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 27 Mar. 2022
• This speedboat design is cheeky and looks great with every wash of jeans in your closet.
  — Megan Gustashaw, GQ, 23 Jan. 2018
• After making out for a bit during a speedboat ride, Kim and Alex have a get-to-know-you chat in the limo on the way to her parents’ house.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 6 Apr. 2020
• Humans love things that go fast: race cars, speedboats, and cheetahs.
  — Kristina Lindborg, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Mar. 2020
• Hithi is an island in the North Malé atoll, a 40-minute speedboat ride from the Maldives’ main airport in the capital city of Malé.
  — Johanna Read, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2022
• The family boarded a speedboat that deposited them back to the land that did not want them.
  — New York Times, 8 Aug. 2019
• Think of it as the polar opposite of a bouncing speedboat.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 16 Nov. 2023
• Or book a direct transfer from Split via the hotel’s speedboat.
  — Anja Mutić, WSJ, 19 July 2018
• The whale doesn't survive, but everyone in the speedboat mostly walks away.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 14 Sep. 2020
• The Deep wants to stop a speedboat from escaping into a tunnel.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 14 Sep. 2020
• The woman lost sight of the other two and flagged down a speedboat that took her to the marina to call rescuers, the department said.
  — Brieanna J Frank, azcentral, 14 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 28 May 2024