Examples of speedboat in a Sentence
speedboats leaving wakes that cause damage to docked vessels and the shoreline
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The video appears to show a long, multi-engine speedboat traveling at sea when a bright flash of light busts over the craft.
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Aamer Madhani, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
Most folks trace its origin to Lake City, Minnesota, where a teenager named Ralph Samuelson put together some makeshift and ridiculously heavy wooden skis and decided to try hanging on for amusement and dear life behind a twenty-four-foot speedboat in 1922.
—Betsy Golden Kellem, JSTOR Daily, 27 Aug. 2025
In Ukraine, compact, seatless drones that resemble speedboats have been used to deliver large explosive payloads, significantly impacting Russia’s Black Sea Fleet.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 24 Aug. 2025
The trailer is careful to showcase the film’s scale – fighter planes soar, speedboats roar, trains careen, and cities flash by in a blur – while keeping plot details tantalizingly out of reach.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 July 2025
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Aamer Madhani, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
Most folks trace its origin to Lake City, Minnesota, where a teenager named Ralph Samuelson put together some makeshift and ridiculously heavy wooden skis and decided to try hanging on for amusement and dear life behind a twenty-four-foot speedboat in 1922.
—Betsy Golden Kellem, JSTOR Daily, 27 Aug. 2025
In Ukraine, compact, seatless drones that resemble speedboats have been used to deliver large explosive payloads, significantly impacting Russia’s Black Sea Fleet.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 24 Aug. 2025
The trailer is careful to showcase the film’s scale – fighter planes soar, speedboats roar, trains careen, and cities flash by in a blur – while keeping plot details tantalizingly out of reach.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 July 2025
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“Speedboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/speedboat. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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speedboat
noun
speed·boat
ˈspēd-ˌbōt 
: a fast motorboat
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