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Recent Examples of sloop
Now as sailors stepped out into the surf, a great crowd tried to take oars off the first sloop.
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Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
Anguilla's rich sailing history comes alive while exploring the island's coastline on a classic Caribbean sloop.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 28 Dec. 2025
Inspired by the original 1926 Q Class sloop, known as Q7 Falcon, aka Lively Lady, which Peter sails regularly around San Diego.
—Kathleen Turner, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
From Ocean Swell to Living-Room Calm Industrial designer Roey Pan sketched the first arc aboard a 27-ft sloop, tracing the way a mainsail breathes with the wind.
—Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 23 Aug. 2025
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Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
Anguilla's rich sailing history comes alive while exploring the island's coastline on a classic Caribbean sloop.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 28 Dec. 2025
Inspired by the original 1926 Q Class sloop, known as Q7 Falcon, aka Lively Lady, which Peter sails regularly around San Diego.
—Kathleen Turner, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
From Ocean Swell to Living-Room Calm Industrial designer Roey Pan sketched the first arc aboard a 27-ft sloop, tracing the way a mainsail breathes with the wind.
—Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 23 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sloop
Noun
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Bring your favorite bottle of bubbly and pick up a lobster roll flight from Off the Hook before setting sail on the Argia schooner, which accommodates up to 49 passengers.—
Morgan Rizzo,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Mar. 2026
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The other Charlottes After the schooner was sold in Pensacola five years later, the next ship — named the North Carolina — was commissioned in 1908, according to the Commander Submarine Force website.—
Charlotte Observer,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Pope Leo on Saturday made a day trip to Monaco, a tax-free microstate on the French Riviera known as a haven for billionaires and their luxury yachts, and urged its residents to share their wealth and help those in need.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
28 Mar. 2026
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And unlike some of their peers, McDonald and Loggins have both embraced yacht rock as a genre phenomenon, even appearing in a recent documentary on the subject for HBO.—
Devon Ivie,
Vulture,
27 Mar. 2026
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Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History On Nov. 16, 1776, the Andrew Doria brigantine arrived in the Caribbean on the British colony St. Eustatius, waving the first national flag of the United States.—
Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
5 Jan. 2026
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On December 4, 1872, sailors aboard the Canadian brigantine Dei Gratia spotted a ship named the Mary Celeste in the distance.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The Panamax ketch features a sleek aluminum exterior, with a displacement hull and a distinctive pointed bow.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
8 July 2025
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And through such buffetings Constance’s little ketch had run aground.—
Jim Shepard,
New Yorker,
8 June 2025
Noun
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An Iranian mine nearly sank an American frigate.—
Bret Stephens,
Mercury News,
27 Mar. 2026
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In 1986, the fleet included 113 frigates, ships smaller than destroyers but vital for missions such as escorting convoys.—
Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
25 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The ship's captain ordered the crew to the yawl boat.—
Caitlin Looby,
jsonline.com,
22 Sep. 2025
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Captain William Griffin and his crew escaped, hopping on the ship’s yawl boat, in time to see the ship and its iron ore cargo vanish underwater.—
Brian Anthony Hernandez,
PEOPLE,
21 Sep. 2025
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In 2022, the duo unveiled a 130-foot trimaran concept with double the interior space of a catamaran.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
1 Apr. 2026
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The catamaran set sail that day from the Miami Yacht Club to Flagler Monument Island, prosecutors said in the filing.—
Dennis Romero,
NBC news,
1 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Blasetti is facing grand larceny charges for allegedly swiping a keelboat from the Dyckman Marina in Inwood around noon Saturday and rowed it to a trimaran moored out in the Hudson River.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
24 July 2025
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Most of the time, a small keelboat barely exceeds 10 knots of speed (11.5mph).—
Andrew Rice,
The Athletic,
13 Mar. 2025
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“Sloop.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sloop. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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