How to Use sloop in a Sentence

sloop

noun

• The first ships to sail the lakes were classic European schooners, sloops and brigs.
  — Porter Fox, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2016
• Wood was an avid sailor who died of a heart attack on his sloop, the Nydia, in 1956.
  — NOLA.com, 14 June 2017
• Of those twenty-three thousand ships, this one was closest to the sunken sloop.
  — John McPhee, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
• Then a great storm arose, mountainous seas, and the sloop was destroyed.
  — John McPhee, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
• Over yonder a fair-sized sloop is perched up in somebody’s yard.
  — al, 19 Nov. 2020
• There are wildlife exhibits, a gift shop, a playground, disc golf, and a ramp for launching your sloop on to the Ohio.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 21 Nov. 2019
• For the first race aboard his new 52-foot racing sloop, Bill Dana finished out of the top 10, and there was a good reason.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Apr. 2021
• Think of it as a go-fast boat that’s as tranquil (and sustainable) as a classic sloop.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 10 Sep. 2021
• On the voyage, The Ranger sunk a brig loaded with flax seed, a schooner with barley and oats and a merchant sloop from Dublin filled with beer.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 1 May 2017
• After a bit of a lull, Perini Navi is back with a groundbreaking new sloop.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 10 June 2022
• On a two-sail boat like this one (called a sloop), the emphasis is on the mainsail (B), the sail nearer the stern (H), which is the rearmost or aft part of the boat.
  — Caleb Paine, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2021
• Or spend a day aboard Beauty, a classic 49-foot sloop (extra charges apply for both of these).
  — Diane Bair and Pamela Wright, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2019
• Richardson began transporting goods around the bay on a 15-ton sloop.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 May 2022
• The sleek, all-aluminum sloop is powered by a Caterpillar engine and can reach more than 14 knots at full tilt.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 5 July 2022
• To aid his cause to clean up the dirty Hudson River, Seeger and others crafted a sloop called Clearwater.
  — USA TODAY, 27 June 2019
• What happened on that sloop would both doom Hicks and immortalize him.
  — Bill Daley, chicagotribune.com, 5 Sep. 2019
• But as the ocean surged and winds surpassed 100 mph, the anchor ripped away from the vessel, Burki said, flinging the slender, longhaired mariner and his sloop ashore over the tops of trees and shrubs.
  — Meryl Kornfield, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2022
• The Hudson River sloop Clearwater moves forward on the wind.
  — Billboard, 13 June 2018
• Another thing Horus has over a classic car or sloop is space.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 6 July 2023
• Wood died at age 88 of a heart attack while sailing alone in his sloop, the Nydia, near his home in Biloxi, Mississippi.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 19 Apr. 2018
• A deck hand enjoys a fantastic view while replacing hlyard line on a 70-ft sloop.
  — Greg Gilbert, The Seattle Times, 4 June 2017
• The festival takes its name from the Hudson River sloop Clearwater, which Seeger helped launch more than four decades ago.
  — Thom Duffy, Billboard, 1 Mar. 2018
• Today, there are 90 rooms and suites in four buildings, including in the main building with its wide veranda at the crest of a sloop above Lake Dora.
  — John Cutter, orlandosentinel.com, 13 Dec. 2020
• Who’d have thought an old-fashioned Dutch sloop would inspire such a modern-day trailblazer?
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 21 Jan. 2022
• Despite the several appearances throughout the years, not much is known about the uncovered sloop in York.
  — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2018
• And all their designs pushed the upper limits of the International Offshore Rule for one-ton sloops.
  — Bill Center, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 July 2017
• Benjamin’s sloop outside Nassau sank, forcing him to leap into a small skiff towed behind it.
  — Andrea Cooper, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Sep. 2020
• In March 1860, Hicks, a first mate on an oyster sloop, killed his entire crew in the lower bay, made off with money in a dinghy, landed on Staten Island and lighted out.
  — Rich Cohen, WSJ, 11 July 2019
• Blackbeard intended to refit his remaining sloop and head to the Bahamas.
  — John Bordsen, USA TODAY, 22 June 2018
• Angell became an avid sportsman in his adopted hometown of Brooklin, Maine, where he could often be found sailing his sloop off the coast.
  — Ira Kaufman, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2022

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024