motorboat
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motorboats
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verb (used without object)
noun
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Three months ago, the only thing John Tortorella planned to do in the spring was purchase a 24-foot motorboat to take his grandchildren fishing in Florida.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 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
A group of women in floral dresses puttered out to meet the Warrior on a bum-bum, an inboard motorboat.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025
Carrie gives Mummy a long hug before she helps us load our bags and the dogs into the big motorboat.
From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart
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
Under the new policy, hunters on Alaska wildlife preserves would also no longer be able to kill adult wolves and pups in their dens, or use motorboats to shoot swimming caribou.
From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2023
In the meantime, small motorboats continued to provision Pine Island.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 5, 2022
Meanwhile, fifty aircraft and thousands of people in motorboats, on foot, on horseback, and even riding reindeer were all searching for the missing plane and flight crew.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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