as in yacht
a boat equipped with one or more sails
we went sailing on the secluded lake in a little two-person dinghy
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Recent Examples of dinghy
Units arrived at the scene by 7:15 p.m., Heflin said, and found seven people floating on a dinghy away from the main boat.
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Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
The camp runs weekly throughout June each year for kids ages 7-17, with small dinghies, known as Opti boats, for beginners, along with larger Laser and RS sailboats for more experienced campers.
—Rachel Wegner, The Tennessean, 18 June 2024
People who couldn’t afford to hire a guide and be chauffeured comfortably in a Mackenzie boat, or who didn’t want to, arrived with dinghies and johnboats lashed to the roofs of old yellow buses.
—David Quammen, Outside Online, 29 Nov. 2024
And here are the day's remaining medal events: Sailing — Mixed dinghy is at 5:43 a.m.
—Sean Nevin, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2024
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Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
The camp runs weekly throughout June each year for kids ages 7-17, with small dinghies, known as Opti boats, for beginners, along with larger Laser and RS sailboats for more experienced campers.
—Rachel Wegner, The Tennessean, 18 June 2024
People who couldn’t afford to hire a guide and be chauffeured comfortably in a Mackenzie boat, or who didn’t want to, arrived with dinghies and johnboats lashed to the roofs of old yellow buses.
—David Quammen, Outside Online, 29 Nov. 2024
And here are the day's remaining medal events: Sailing — Mixed dinghy is at 5:43 a.m.
—Sean Nevin, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dinghy
Noun
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The sailboats in the force ranged from day cruisers to 150-foot racing yachts.—
David Wolman,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 Jan. 2025
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Guo also gained notoriety for palling around with Trump adviser Steve Bannon, whose 2020 arrest on his own fraud charges took place on the tycoon’s yacht.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
6 Jan. 2025
Noun
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That said, this first scene explains that passage (either in or out) across the Barrier is nigh impossible without access codes or a 'key' that's built into the ships used by Old Republic emissaries.—
Fran Ruiz,
Space.com,
8 Jan. 2025
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Inbound ship convoys from Europe were told to keep an eye out.—
David Wolman,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The Shipwreck Bar is an actual schooner that once belonged to the resort’s original owner.—
Elizabeth Brownfield,
Forbes,
21 Dec. 2024
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The schooner’s South Australian owner escaped conviction on slavery charges because the prosecution didn’t have enough evidence to prove that working conditions at the ship’s destination of Fiji constituted slavery.—
Shoshi Parks,
Smithsonian Magazine,
5 Dec. 2024
Noun
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To ensure Blackbeard was neutralized, Spotswood gave Robert Maynard, an officer in the Royal Navy, control of 60 men and two sloops—small sailboats that lacked cannons but could pursue Blackbeard in the narrow inlets and shallows of the coast.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
22 Nov. 2024
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Twenty men on Maynard’s sloop died, and Blackbeard presumed the rest of the crew dead.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
22 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Most summer and fall weekends, my family raced sailboats in different places around the bay.—
The Editors,
Outside Online,
25 Dec. 2024
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Large sailboats ferrying immigrants from Europe to New York at the turn of the 19th century were replaced by the new technology of steamships within 15 years.—
IEEE Spectrum,
IEEE Spectrum,
11 Dec. 2024
Noun
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What To Know On December 22 last year, three frigates and three Coast Guard ships from China transited the Miyako Strait westward from the Philippine Sea to the East China Sea, The Yomiuri Shimbun reported on Wednesday, which cited sources close to the Japanese government.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
2 Jan. 2025
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The Philippine military immediately sent its naval forces to monitor the Ufa, including a frigate armed with missiles and anti-submarine warfare capabilities.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
2 Dec. 2024
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