tall ship

How to use tall ship in a sentence

• This tall ship was commanded by Captain Thomas Fleming, who had been stationed on the look-out to the eastward.

  How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves | W.H.G. Kingston

• "A tall ship" meant a stout and sea-worthy ship; "a tall man," meant a man that was at once able-bodied and true-hearted.

  Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. IX.--February, 1851.--Vol. II. | Various

• A line of broken water traced the dangerous bar, which in clear day and balmy weather has cracked the back of many a tall ship.

  The White Company | Arthur Conan Doyle

• At length a tall ship was seen sailing up the harbour with gay flags flying from the mastheads.

  The Settlers | William H. G. Kingston

• Yon tall ship, which is moored without the smaller craft of our seas, is the vessel of a Lutheran from the islands of Inghilterra.

  The Bravo | J. Fenimore Cooper