How to Use schooner in a Sentence

schooner

noun
  • Many of these schooners have made the trip here before.
    — Paige Darrah, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 May 2026
  • The frosty schooners of cold beer will be back, too, just in time for summer.
    — Compiled By Celestina Blok, star-telegram.com, 7 June 2017
  • During its time, the schooner was one of the many ships used for the cross-lake grain trade.
    — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
  • There, patrons throw back beers by the schooner (a large goblet), liter and half-liter.
    — Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The schooner sleeps up to 16 guests in eight spacious cabins.
    — Fran Golden, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Mar. 2021
  • This allows the schooner to catch the light like a crystal while cruising the high seas.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Tickets will be on sale for a two-hour tour aboard the 82-foot schooner Curlew.
    — Staff Report, Orange County Register, 8 June 2017
  • The chilled schooner is brimming with large tail-on, cocktail shrimp in a tangy and slightly sweet sauce.
    — Courtney Dabney, star-telegram, 22 May 2018
  • One of the highlights of the course is the 75-foot schooner ship as the 11th hole.
    — Susan B. Barnes, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2017
  • The 81-foot schooner takes guests around the nearby islands and through the seaport.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2023
  • The lines between the steamer and schooner barges were cut and Ironton’s crew was adrift in the dark.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Two big schooners of beer, then — pilsner for me, IPA for Ian.
    — David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 5 Feb. 2025
  • On the ocean, a schooner could sail in a storm for days before the storm blew itself out, Baillod said.
    — Talia Soglin, chicagotribune.com, 8 July 2021
  • The weather was rough, and strong winds pushed the two schooners perilously close to the disabled steamer.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Freitas had taken a group of clients for a spin on his 80-foot schooner, Adirondack.
    — John Hanc, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Sep. 2021
  • For years, the two of us have been charting a bloody course across the briny blue, looting every schooner fool enough to drift into our ken.
    — Simon Rich, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2020
  • The schooner Tara has made its way around the ocean, collecting samples from the surface to the depths and from pole to pole.
    — Quanta Magazine, 25 Apr. 2019
  • The three masted schooner weighed 572 tons and was built in Camden, Maine, records show.
    — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Crosby sailed the world in a 59-foot Honduran mahogany schooner called the Mayan.
    — Steve Chawkins, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2023
  • Crosby once sailed the world in a 59-foot Honduran mahogany schooner called the Mayan.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2023
  • The wooden schooner got caught in a storm in the dead of night and went down in September 1886.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Britain, meanwhile, still has not bounced back from its loss in 1851 to the schooner America.
    — The Associated Press, New York Times, 9 June 2017
  • In 1965, Cochran's boat, a large schooner called the Rogue, was found drifting off the coast of Guatemala.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 25 May 2026
  • Although rescuers successfully saved the entire crew and their captain (who shared the schooner’s name), the vessel wasn’t so lucky.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 28 Jan. 2026
  • City Dock, once a shipping hub, now acts as a host to schooners and other boats waiting to set sail on the Chesapeake Bay.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 25 July 2023
  • The 98-foot-long schooner was built in Massachusetts in 1883.
    — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 23 Jan. 2026
  • When the schooner was just off the coast of El Salvador, a tramp steamer spotted them and finally supplied fresh water.
    — Michael Waters, New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2026
  • In total, 109 men, women, and children survived the crossing in the hold of the schooner Clotilda.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2019
  • The mission to find the Endurance was a far cry from Shackleton’s voyage on the 144-foot schooner.
    — Abigail Barronian, Outside Online, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The passing schooner La Petite picked up all eight crew members and took them to Baileys Harbor.
    — Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 15 Sep. 2025

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