How to Use schooner in a Sentence

schooner

noun

• One of the highlights of the course is the 75-foot schooner ship as the 11th hole.
  — Susan B. Barnes, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2017
• 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
• The frosty schooners of cold beer will be back, too, just in time for summer.
  — Compiled By Celestina Blok, star-telegram.com, 7 June 2017
• Tickets will be on sale for a two-hour tour aboard the 82-foot schooner Curlew.
  — Staff Report, Orange County Register, 8 June 2017
• 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
• The first ships to sail the lakes were classic European schooners, sloops and brigs.
  — Porter Fox, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2016
• The three masted schooner weighed 572 tons and was built in Camden, Maine, records show.
  — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 20 Sep. 2017
• 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
• Britain, meanwhile, still has not bounced back from its loss in 1851 to the schooner America.
  — The Associated Press, New York Times, 9 June 2017
• 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
• In 1860, the schooner Clotilda became the last known ship to carry enslaved people from the west coast of Africa to the United States.
  — Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2024
• The schooner painting over the sofa has been there forever.
  — Christine Pittel, House Beautiful, 6 Apr. 2015
• 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
• Wooden schooners, or lumber hookers, would crowd the piers as items were loaded.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2024
• Instead, the hull of the schooner named Visions sits landlocked amid a cluster of canyon oak trees, covered in dust, dry leaves and dead branches.
  — Jeff Collins, Orange County Register, 10 June 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024