How to Use motorboat in a Sentence

motorboat

noun
  • But where are the best spots to zip around on a motorboat or charter a yacht?
    — Brittany Anas, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
  • The gun used in the murder was found in a motorboat parked in his garage.
    — Dan Raby, CBS News, 7 May 2026
  • At least four bullets pierced through the side of their small motorboat.
    — Kelly Kasulis Cho, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2022
  • At the shore there was a short dock, a white motorboat rocking beside it.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Dec. 2025
  • And native species of fish tend not to mind the motorboat noise so they were not driven to the nets.
    — Matt Campbell, kansascity, 12 Mar. 2018
  • To this day, four fifths of their food come from the land and sea—now via snowmobile and motorboat.
    — Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
  • To this day, four fifths of their food come from the land and sea—now via snowmobile and motorboat.
    — Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Leith returned me to shore in a motorboat.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Your feet sink a bit into the mushy floor, which trembles slightly when a motorboat speeds past.
    — Tim Brinkhof, Discover Magazine, 12 Nov. 2023
  • Hundreds of workers lived there, and the roar of motorboats was always present.
    — Jim Popkin, WIRED, 29 Mar. 2011
  • Most of my boating time is spent fishing, either from a drift boat (rivers) or small motorboat (lakes).
    — Scott McKee, Field & Stream, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Chief among them is a beach bar with a pizza oven, a 33-foot motorboat, kayaks, and water toys.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Launch kayaks, canoes, or small motorboats from the riverbank boat ramps on the south end of the reservation.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
  • Police said the assailants dragged Eastman to a motorboat and sped away.
    — Jason Fields, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Sometimes there was the low rumble of thunder or the hum of a motorboat, its tiny lights crossing far out from west to east.
    — Mary Grimm, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019
  • On a motorboat outside the villa, a niece of Osama bin Laden raised a flag that read trump won.
    — Harper’s Magazine, Harper’s Magazine , 17 June 2021
  • Using a sports rental, like a snowmobile or motorboat, is also a creative way to get to know the area.
    — Jennifer Prince, Travel + Leisure, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Of the motorboat that cut across the tow lines of a Coast Guard lifeboat pulling a disabled ship to safety.
    — John Branch, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
  • In the distance, a motorboat cuts a white line from the shore to deliver the first competitors to the site.
    — James Nestor, Outside Online, 25 Jan. 2012
  • The couple and their family are shown on surfboards, motorboats, and kayaks.
    — Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Think about driving a small motorboat when a yacht or even a cruise ship passes and being swamped and tossed around in the larger boat’s wake.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 21 Sep. 2020
  • The laser acts sort of like a motorboat, dragging those particles in its wake, says Leemans.
    — Tim Folger, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2015
  • When the HotTug isn't filled, it can be used as a motorboat to explore open waters.
    — Lauren Smith, House Beautiful, 15 Aug. 2016
  • On Tuesday, some of the family's crown jewels were stolen in a high-speed motorboat heist.
    — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 3 Aug. 2018
  • News reports noted that Brero drove a Porsche Cayenne and docked a motorboat on the lake.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Innate put on his bathrobe and bowler hat, loaded a few bags into his motorboat, and shook the engine to life with a few pulls of the starter cord.
    — Joe Kloc, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • The Philippine Sea searched for fleeing pirates, but the motorboat was long gone.
    — Bloomberg.com, 27 July 2017
  • Among the six teams of guardians are former poachers, like motorboat driver Kong Theary.
    — Stefan Lovgren, National Geographic, 23 Apr. 2019
  • So the community used a small motorboat to drag the carcass to the nearby mangroves.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2022
  • The fisheries funds are raised from a 10% excise tax on fishing rods, reels and lures as well as a motorboat fuel tax.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Sep. 2017

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