sailing ship
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of sailing ship
First recorded in 1880–85
Example Sentences
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Its first vessel, a sailing ship named the Rembrandt van Rijn, initially operated in Belize and the Galápagos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026
Authorities in New York are investigating the site where a Mexican sailing ship struck the Brooklyn Bridge for clues about how the fatal collision occurred.
From BBC ● May 18, 2025
Some capture the large picture, like the photograph by Laurent Cipriani of a three-masted sailing ship arriving in Marseille, France, with the Olympic flame from Greece.
From Seattle Times ● May 14, 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
And yet, even as he thought of all these things, he noticed somehow that the sky was a lovely shade of blue and that one cloud had the shape of a sailing ship.
From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster
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