How to Use galleon in a Sentence

galleon

noun

• Over the course of that period, some Filipinos — including sailors who came over on the large shipping vessels known as galleons — ended up migrating to Mexico.
  — Paola Briseño-Gonzalez, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2023
• And then the galleons want to shop in the mall in the suburbs.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2018
• Wood from a sunken Spanish galleon was used for the bar.
  — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2023
• Sea hunt: At the bottom of the sea is lead, in the hold of galleons that sunk centuries ago.
  — National Geographic, 6 Nov. 2019
• The galleon went down more than 300 years ago with what may be the world's largest sunken treasure.
  — Jim Wyss, miamiherald, 6 July 2017
• The Wager was chasing a galleon that was thought to be full of treasure.
  — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2023
• The gold bar was recovered from the 1622 wreck of a Spanish galleon off the Florida Keys.
  — Fox News, 22 May 2018
• Driven hard, most crossovers sway and lean like Spanish galleons.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
• Most of the hunting that goes on here has nothing to do with Spanish galleons or Viking longboats.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2017
• Witches and wizards can earn galleons to spend at the pop-up Honeydukes.
  — Sonja Haller, azcentral, 28 June 2018
• The wreck, named for the large lumps of beeswax that have been found scattered along the coast for the past two centuries, is believed to be a Spanish galleon that wrecked in the late 1600s.
  — Olivia Dimmer, OregonLive.com, 29 June 2017
• Asians, who traveled to Mexico on Spanish galleons, some by choice and some in bondage.
  — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 12 Apr. 2018
• Today, the retired businessman is fishing for gold, silver and gems from the wreck of a Spanish galleon that sank in 1656.
  — David Morgan, CBS News, 27 July 2023
• The galleon was one in a fleet of Spanish ships loaded with gold, silver and jewelry that had left Havana bound for Spain.
  — Tonya Alanez, Sun-Sentinel.com, 30 Jan. 2018
• Cocktails flow like the outgoing tide around the darkened Wreck Bar, designed to look like a Spanish galleon resting on the ocean floor.
  — Connie Ogle, orlandosentinel.com, 20 Mar. 2022
• Because while a pirate flag can be struck at season’s end and hoisted anew the next, a wrecked galleon is forever a wrecked galleon.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• Moleskine hasn't revealed how many Galleons the notebooks will cost, but Muggles can buy them for $24.95.
  — Neha Prakash, Teen Vogue, 28 Oct. 2016
• But what was a pirate boss to do, upon seizing a Spanish galleon and filling his ship’s hold to the brim with jewels and silks and gold doubloons?
  — Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 11 Apr. 2023
• The ship, a Spanish galleon, left Manila in 1693, hauling porcelain, pottery and valuable wax that gave the ship its nickname – Beeswax.
  — oregonlive, 16 June 2022
• The Colosseum looms through the pines of Parco di Traiano like a galleon, its arches like empty portholes.
  — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2021
• Fortresses were erected around the city in the 16th and 17th centuries to protect its wealth and ensure the safety of the Spanish galleons carrying gold and silver away from the New World.
  — Maureen Orth, Town & Country, 11 Jan. 2013
• Getting into the Wizarding World of Harry Potter is going to cost you a few more galleons.
  — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2023
• The galleon left Spain for the Caribbean in March 1622, but sank later that year after it was caught in a hurricane near Florida.
  — Dana Givens, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2022
• Look at the massive Seville cityscape here, by an unknown painter from around 1660, in which men of lighter and darker skin tones gossip and gallivant on the riverbank as galleons sail by.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
• Yet the heart of the plan called for an act of outright thievery: to snatch a Spanish galleon loaded with virgin silver and hundreds of thousands of silver coins.
  — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• The men have made a career of exploring shipwrecks, including Spanish galleons sunk in Pensacola Bay in 1559 and slave ships sunk off the coast of Africa.
  — Ben Raines, AL.com, 23 Jan. 2018
• Even the campus itself conjures tales of derring-do, with buildings swooping along a shallow curve, as if tracing a galleon from stern to bow.
  — Rachel Evans, Bloomberg.com, 27 July 2017
• Over the centuries, dozens of stately Old World galleons smashed, splintered, and sank on this irregular stretch of windy Florida coast.
  — Chad Lewis, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Apr. 2017
• In July 1693, a large Spanish galleon set sail from the Philippines with a full cargo load of Asian luxury goods, including silk, porcelain and beeswax.
  — New York Times, 12 July 2022
• After all, any pollster worth his galleons knows it’s tough to elect atheists to political office.
  — Emma Green, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2017

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024