motorboat
Americannoun
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motorboats
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verb (used without object)
noun
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During this year’s “crafting season,” he bought a 12-foot motorboat for $1,000 and transformed it by adding his own roof and a working wood stove.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Vaughan had been on the boat with her husband and two children, aged 12 and eight, and had been sunbathing when the motorboat crashed into a sailboat carrying party-goers.
From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025
This summer, Carle has continued his research at night, setting out in a motorboat on Mono Lake to catch phalaropes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2025
All that cargo, plus the residents—many of them elderly, ailing, or pregnant—had to be lifted from a motorboat to the deck of the Warrior.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025
When he and Nasser returned to the Claiborne house, they saw a small motorboat tied to the front porch.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
Security was visibly heightened at the event, with police cruising the canals in motorboats.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
The vast majority of the attacks were on sailboats or catamarans, with a handful involving fishing boats and motorboats.
From Scientific American ● May 24, 2023
One of the agency’s motorboats rescued two men suffering from hypothermia and recovered the body of a boy.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2023
Today, the most common path through the gap begins in the Colombian beach town of Capurganá, where Sarah and her mother clambered from motorboats advertising “responsible tourism” onto a dock crowded with other migrants.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2022
Where streets should have been, green canals etched their way through the neighborhoods, each one jammed with motorboats.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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