motorboat
Americannoun
verb (used without object)
noun
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Origin of motorboat
Example Sentences
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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
On a recent morning, Miller steered a motorboat to the islands where gulls nest.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 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
In essence, it was a big raft, with tall, reinforced sides on 60 empty steel drums for buoyancy, towed by motorboat.
From Salon • Apr. 9, 2025
The motorboat towed Zeitoun and Frank to the woman’s house, and once they were close, the young men cut the engine and coasted toward the porch.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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