tall ship
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The show is set on board the American Pride tall ship docked at Long Beach’s Pine Avenue Pier, a 130-foot schooner that today is primarily used as an education-focused vessel.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 19, 2025
Sometime in the 1730s, Johann and Balthazar Hieronymus left their home along the Rhine River and set out for Rotterdam, where they boarded the Two Brothers, a tall ship bound for Philadelphia.
From Slate • Mar. 4, 2023
The steam-powered tugboats would then race out to meet the tall ship, and the first one to reach the ship would get the coveted job of bringing it into port.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 2, 2021
The famous landmark was scheduled to open this afternoon to allow a large wooden tall ship through, but it appears to have become jammed in place.
From BBC • Aug. 9, 2021
Then he saw against the Sun, sinking blood-red into a wrack of clouds, the black outline of a tall ship with torn sails riding up out of the West.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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