schooners
- plural of schooner.
Example Sentences
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Time Out credited the "inexpensive Neapolitan pizzas and beer schooners" at Paesano as one of the highlights on the road.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2022
Rather than being filled with warships and schooners, the piers of Old Portsmouth are now crowded with ferries and leisure yachts, their white masts tilting with the sway of the water.
From New York Times ● Jun. 24, 2021
Small, shallow-draft scows then took the stones to much bigger schooners or sloops, anchored in deeper water, for the trip up the Potomac.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2021
Bassi’s grandfather fished halibut back when schooners carried small dories out to the fishing grounds, which made the landing of a fish that can grow to 500 pounds all the more exciting.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2019
I looked at his hands and feet The skin was alligatored and cracked, tough from age and walking barefoot on the hot decks of schooners and freighters.
From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor
