yacht
noun
a vessel used for private cruising, racing, or other noncommercial purposes.
was yachting
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past progressiveof yacht.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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And everyone's like, "Oh, I was yachting," and whatever, places I never heard of.
From Salon ● Mar. 30, 2024
Nixon, by contrast, was yachting off the Florida Keys, "doing some thinking and writing," according to an aide.
From Time Magazine Archive
The one pursuit that he was really fond of was yachting.
From The Queen of Hearts by Wilkie Collins
His favorite recreation was yachting, and one of his possessions was a sailing yacht.
From Memoirs of Life and Literature by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock
If I were to pose as a young Englishman whose hobby was yachting, I could scarcely have had a finer craft wherewith to indulge my fancy.
From The Kidnapped President by Guy Newell Boothby
