jet boat
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of jet boat
First recorded in 1960–65
Example Sentences
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“My name is One Who Takes Care of Water,” she tells us as the jet boat pushes away from the dock.
From Washington Post • Aug. 5, 2021
Plein’s show also included a fighter jet, boat and cars, making for a “military-meets-decadence air,” the New York Post reported.
From Fox News • Feb. 25, 2020
On the red jet boat, Tuntiak Katan, the territory and natural-resources director for the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon, was along for the ride.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2018
Seeing them from a jet boat provides fresh air, the occasional fast turn and splash, and an architecture lesson on, among others, the Burnside, Hawthorne and Steel bridges.
From The Guardian • May 27, 2017
What Strong really hoped for was the sight of a jet boat, since in a jet boat, Tom would have a better chance of survival.
From On the Trail of the Space Pirates by Glanzman, Louis
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