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

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