How to Use galleon in a Sentence

galleon

noun
  • And then the galleons want to shop in the mall in the suburbs.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Driven hard, most crossovers sway and lean like Spanish galleons.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The Wager was chasing a galleon that was thought to be full of treasure.
    — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2023
  • The galleon went down more than 300 years ago with what may be the world's largest sunken treasure.
    — Jim Wyss, miamiherald, 6 July 2017
  • Witches and wizards can earn galleons to spend at the pop-up Honeydukes.
    — Sonja Haller, azcentral, 28 June 2018
  • Throughout it there are forts, full-size wooden galleons and signs hung on what appear to be Persian rugs.
    — Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • On the other end, the galleons sent the Asian coconut palm to Mexico.
    — Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2026
  • Most of the hunting that goes on here has nothing to do with Spanish galleons or Viking longboats.
    — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2017
  • Asians, who traveled to Mexico on Spanish galleons, some by choice and some in bondage.
    — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 12 Apr. 2018
  • In my first go, my ancient Romans became the Spanish, who sent galleons to distant lands.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Earlier this month, the galleon docked on southern England’s Isle of Wight.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Even the campus itself conjures tales of derring-do, with buildings swooping along a shallow curve, as if tracing a galleon from stern to bow.
    — Rachel Evans, Bloomberg.com, 27 July 2017
  • The galleon also brought a critical technical secret.
    — Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2026
  • But what was a pirate boss to do, upon seizing a Spanish galleon and filling his ship’s hold to the brim with jewels and silks and gold doubloons?
    — Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The galleon was one in a fleet of Spanish ships loaded with gold, silver and jewelry that had left Havana bound for Spain.
    — Tonya Alanez, Sun-Sentinel.com, 30 Jan. 2018
  • The Colosseum looms through the pines of Parco di Traiano like a galleon, its arches like empty portholes.
    — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2021
  • The gold bar was recovered from the 1622 wreck of a Spanish galleon off the Florida Keys.
    — Fox News, 22 May 2018
  • Getting into the Wizarding World of Harry Potter is going to cost you a few more galleons.
    — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The wreck, named for the large lumps of beeswax that have been found scattered along the coast for the past two centuries, is believed to be a Spanish galleon that wrecked in the late 1600s.
    — Olivia Dimmer, OregonLive.com, 29 June 2017
  • Look at the massive Seville cityscape here, by an unknown painter from around 1660, in which men of lighter and darker skin tones gossip and gallivant on the riverbank as galleons sail by.
    — Jason Farago, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Colombian researchers located the galleon in 2015, leading to legal and diplomatic disputes.
    — CBS News, 21 Nov. 2025
  • The ship, a Spanish galleon, left Manila in 1693, hauling porcelain, pottery and valuable wax that gave the ship its nickname – Beeswax.
    — oregonlive, 16 June 2022
  • The Spanish, who had at first just flitted along the coast in their galleons, had begun marching inland and overland from Mexico with crosses and soldiers and soldiers’ families.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • The galleon left Spain for the Caribbean in March 1622, but sank later that year after it was caught in a hurricane near Florida.
    — Dana Givens, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The men have made a career of exploring shipwrecks, including Spanish galleons sunk in Pensacola Bay in 1559 and slave ships sunk off the coast of Africa.
    — Ben Raines, AL.com, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Fortresses were erected around the city in the 16th and 17th centuries to protect its wealth and ensure the safety of the Spanish galleons carrying gold and silver away from the New World.
    — Maureen Orth, Town & Country, 11 Jan. 2013
  • The artifacts are the first treasures to be recovered from the wreckage of the San José, a Spanish galleon that was sunk by the British Royal Navy in the Caribbean more than 300 years ago.
    — Michael Rios, CNN Money, 20 Nov. 2025
  • Arquiste’s best-selling Nanban, for instance, conjures the aroma of a 17th-century galleon laden with coffee, leather, and saffron, while L’Or de Louis evokes the atmosphere of an orangerie at Versailles.
    — April Long, Travel + Leisure, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Alas, as anyone who’s ever played a JRPG might expect of a journey aboard a massive flying galleon, the Sullys’ convoy is attacked in the sky, and their family is scattered into a small handful of different factions that spend the rest of the movie trying to reunite.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 16 Dec. 2025
  • The beverage’s roots go back to 1565, when the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade route began between Mexico and the Philippines, permanently altering both countries’ culinary trajectories.
    — Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2026

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