SCHOONER in a Sentence
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13 example sentences for SCHOONER, such as:
1. He drank a schooner of beer and became drunk.
2. A schooner, from Spain or Portugal, laden with fruit and wine.
3. At last, passage paid, and luggage safe, we stood on board the schooner.
4. It turns out that the schooner is a Russian from Varna, and is called the Demeter.
5. The only sail noticeable was a foreign schooner with all sails set, which was seemingly going westwards.
2. A schooner, from Spain or Portugal, laden with fruit and wine.
3. At last, passage paid, and luggage safe, we stood on board the schooner.
4. It turns out that the schooner is a Russian from Varna, and is called the Demeter.
5. The only sail noticeable was a foreign schooner with all sails set, which was seemingly going westwards.
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Meanings and Examples of SCHOONER
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schooner
n. a large beer glass
n. sailing vessel used in former times
Classic Sentence:
1 It was a roving shanty, the cabin of a land schooner, with black oilcloth seats along the side, and for desk, a pine board to be let down on hinges.
2 We borrowed a wheelbarrow, and embarking our things, including my own poor carpet-bag, and Queequeg's canvas sack and hammock, away we went down to "the Moss," the little Nantucket packet schooner moored at the wharf.
3 At last, passage paid, and luggage safe, we stood on board the schooner.
4 The schooner was run into the wind, and while the hands were clearing away the stern boat, Queequeg, stripped to the waist, darted from the side with a long living arc of a leap.
5 Chartering a small native schooner, he returned with them to his vessel; and finding all right there, again resumed his cruisings.
6 I took passage with Captain Rowe, in the schooner Wild Cat, and, after a sail of about twenty-four hours, I found myself near the place of my birth.
7 The only sail noticeable was a foreign schooner with all sails set, which was seemingly going westwards.
8 Before long the searchlight discovered some distance away a schooner with all sails set, apparently the same vessel which had been noticed earlier in the evening.
9 It turns out that the schooner is a Russian from Varna, and is called the Demeter.
10 Around the schooner lay a number of small fishing-boats belonging to the fishermen of the neighboring village, like humble subjects awaiting orders from their queen.
11 A schooner, from Spain or Portugal, laden with fruit and wine.
12 It is quite as much as I can do to take care of myself, without taking care of ships, barques, brigs, schooners, and what not.
Example Sentence:
1 He drank a schooner of beer and became drunk.