How to Use motorboat in a Sentence

motorboat

noun

• Of the motorboat that cut across the tow lines of a Coast Guard lifeboat pulling a disabled ship to safety.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• And native species of fish tend not to mind the motorboat noise so they were not driven to the nets.
  — Matt Campbell, kansascity, 12 Mar. 2018
• At least four bullets pierced through the side of their small motorboat.
  — Kelly Kasulis Cho, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2022
• To this day, four fifths of their food come from the land and sea—now via snowmobile and motorboat.
  — Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 19 Dec. 2023
• To this day, four fifths of their food come from the land and sea—now via snowmobile and motorboat.
  — Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
• On a motorboat outside the villa, a niece of Osama bin Laden raised a flag that read trump won.
  — Harper’s Magazine, Harper’s Magazine , 17 June 2021
• News reports noted that Brero drove a Porsche Cayenne and docked a motorboat on the lake.
  — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• Inspectors zoomed out in a motorboat to check on the STS-50.
  — Tristram Korten, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Aug. 2020
• A small motorboat takes him—and his handmade rowboat—to the kelp beds about an hour away.
  — Jay Carroll, Bon Appetit, 27 Feb. 2017
• In the distance, a motorboat cuts a white line from the shore to deliver the first competitors to the site.
  — James Nestor, Outside Online, 25 Jan. 2012
• The story revolves around a youth, who lives on the edge of the Venice lagoon and dreams of Barchino (motorboat).
  — Liza Foreman, Variety, 7 Sep. 2021
• And did my ears deceive me, or was that Ellen pretending to motorboat Susan's boobs at the end of the episode?
  — EW.com, 26 Oct. 2023
• Launch kayaks, canoes, or small motorboats from the riverbank boat ramps on the south end of the reservation.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
• Hundreds of workers lived there, and the roar of motorboats was always present.
  — Jim Popkin, WIRED, 29 Mar. 2011
• Partway through the trip, their motorboat breaks down, and they are forced to pole more than 200 miles upriver in a scow.
  — Krista Langlois, Outside Online, 6 Feb. 2020
• When the HotTug isn't filled, it can be used as a motorboat to explore open waters.
  — Lauren Smith, House Beautiful, 15 Aug. 2016
• When the HotTug isn't filled, it can be used as a motorboat to explore open waters.
  — Lauren Smith, House Beautiful, 15 Aug. 2016
• The Philippine Sea searched for fleeing pirates, but the motorboat was long gone.
  — Bloomberg.com, 27 July 2017
• Climb aboard a motorboat for a tour of the Pascagoula River, or hop aboard a charter boat for some fishing at one of the many marinas.
  — Mike and Wendy Pramik, USA TODAY, 7 June 2019
• Sometimes there was the low rumble of thunder or the hum of a motorboat, its tiny lights crossing far out from west to east.
  — Mary Grimm, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019
• Then the neighbor, Justin King, moved in close to the motorboat and Brady took his flying leap, landing on the vessel and stopping it.
  — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 9 July 2024
• Innate put on his bathrobe and bowler hat, loaded a few bags into his motorboat, and shook the engine to life with a few pulls of the starter cord.
  — Joe Kloc, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• Your feet sink a bit into the mushy floor, which trembles slightly when a motorboat speeds past.
  — Tim Brinkhof, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2023
• No one was injured but the motorboat’s side was damaged.
  — Washington Post, 30 June 2019
• On an April trip aboard the Lilly B, a small, pearly white motorboat, Greaver donned blue gloves to collect her samples.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 18 Apr. 2022
• Above, the view while driving a motorboat past mangroves.
  — Tony Perrottet, WSJ, 15 Aug. 2022
• Think about driving a small motorboat when a yacht or even a cruise ship passes and being swamped and tossed around in the larger boat’s wake.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 21 Sep. 2020
• The fisheries funds are raised from a 10% excise tax on fishing rods, reels and lures as well as a motorboat fuel tax.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2017
• On Tuesday, some of the family's crown jewels were stolen in a high-speed motorboat heist.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 3 Aug. 2018
• Father and son sprang into action, heading onto the water in their own craft to get closer to the raging motorboat.
  — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 9 July 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024