sailing ship
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of sailing ship
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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América Sánchez, 20, and 23-year-old Adal Jair Maldonado Marcos were among the 277 crew members on board the Mexican Navy's sailing ship when its three masts snapped as they hit the bridge.
From BBC • May 19, 2025
The flame will travel from Athens’ port of Piraeus on the Belem, a French three-masted sailing ship built in 1896 — the year of the first modern games in Athens.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 15, 2024
The idea began when Hay saw an etching of a 19th-century sailing ship in a Fiji museum.
From Science Daily • Feb. 26, 2024
Among them was a sailing ship named Trinidad that sank in Lake Michigan about 150 years ago.
From DOGO News • Sep. 27, 2023
The onions must be harvested, packed into the rough sacks that Mercy had sewn, and stacked ready to be hauled into Hartford or bartered for goods when a sailing ship came up the river.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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