How to Use watercraft in a Sentence

watercraft

noun
  • Bring your own watercraft or use a sit-on-top kayak for free.
    — Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Bring your own watercraft or use a sit-on-top kayak for free.
    — Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2025
  • For those who don’t have watercraft, there’s green space to walk around the lake on foot.
    — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Paddlers may bring their own watercraft or use a free sit-on-top kayak.
    — Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Paddlers may bring their own watercraft or use a free sit-on-top kayak.
    — Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The best fish finder will fit in almost any boat or watercraft.
    — Ric Burnley, Field & Stream, 4 May 2023
  • Those who don’t have their own watercraft can hire one from Le Boat.
    — Joe Yogerst, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024
  • The blue and white watercraft had two fishing poles sticking up from its stern.
    — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2021
  • Others could head to the boathouse and rent a watercraft to paddle around.
    — Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 10 Apr. 2022
  • Many marinas rent boats and other watercraft, such as jet skis.
    — Carla Jean Whitley, al.com, 10 July 2019
  • The parking area had the only opening wide enough to launch even our small watercraft.
    — Bob Robinson, Arkansas Online, 19 June 2023
  • The huge lake is eerily devoid of watercraft, but that may be changing.
    — Simon Peter Groebner, Philly.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Grace said the man's father was brought to shore on a personal watercraft.
    — Rob Shikina, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Apr. 2018
  • But sanctioned places to put one’s own watercraft into the rivers still are few and far between.
    — Patricia Sullivan, Washington Post, 3 July 2018
  • Bring your own watercraft or rent a kayak or stand-up paddleboard at the park for an easy-breezy paddle.
    — Erin Gifford, Southern Living, 2 Feb. 2025
  • Bring your own watercraft or rent a kayak or stand-up paddleboard at the park for an easy-breezy paddle.
    — Erin Gifford, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2024
  • The town has many watercraft rentals like kayaks, canoes and paddleboards.
    — Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The current caused the watercraft to also overturn at some point, but no one was injured.
    — oregonlive, 1 Sep. 2019
  • How far is a 186-mile trip for a personal watercraft like this?
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 29 Aug. 2023
  • The rider hung onto his upside-down watercraft for an hour, as speeding boats raced by.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The girls were on a personal watercraft tour with their parents when the tragedy happened.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The three men spent nearly 15 minutes trying to right the watercraft to no avail.
    — Joe Friedrichs Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 26 Nov. 2020
  • Also, spray down watercraft and equipment with high-pressure hoses or rinse them off with water.
    — Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Rizvi had been piloting the watercraft with two female riders who didn’t know how to swim, deputies said at the time.
    — Vincent Medina, Sacramento Bee, 28 June 2024
  • Jet skis are the most popular watercraft to rent in Richmond.
    — Karri Peifer, Axios, 12 July 2024
  • The firefighters used the watercraft to reach three hunters that had lost control of their boat and were unable to make it to shore.
    — Nwa Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 28 Dec. 2024
  • Thompson steered the ship from the bow and Malin moved about the 64-foot watercraft.
    — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 6 Feb. 2024
  • In the video of the incident, the deer sit in the boat after swimming toward the watercraft.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, Peoplemag, 17 Oct. 2023
  • If the watercraft is going forward, a squeeze of the brake lever reverses the motor and slows it down.
    — Keith Barry, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2009
  • As a relative helped the men right the watercraft, the victim went under the water.
    — Susan Jacobson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 4 July 2017

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