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.

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schooner
 n.  originally, a small vessel with two masts; ship; large goblet or drinking glass
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.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
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.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.
3  At last, passage paid, and luggage safe, we stood on board the schooner.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.
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.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.
5  Chartering a small native schooner, he returned with them to his vessel; and finding all right there, again resumed his cruisings.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
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.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  The only sail noticeable was a foreign schooner with all sails set, which was seemingly going westwards.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
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.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
9  It turns out that the schooner is a Russian from Varna, and is called the Demeter.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
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.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 85. The Journey.
11  A schooner, from Spain or Portugal, laden with fruit and wine.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 55. TEMPEST
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.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
Example Sentence:
1  He drank a schooner of beer and became drunk.