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Example sentences for: regatta

How can you use “regatta” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Racing started as an informal pastime, but in 1840 Samuel Triscott (a local victualer) organized the first regatta.
The first woman to captain a boat in the Family Regatta, Gloria Patience was given her nickname because of the many sharks she has caught.
The quiet town comes to life every April when it hosts the Family Island Regatta.
Most readers of VERBATIM would, I am sure, have been as intrigued as I was to discover that a yeoman is “an English landowner often having municipal functions”; that in tennis a ball is net “when it touches the top of the summit [ sic ] of the net separating the two sides”; that a starting block has “compartments in which race-horses are put before the off so they can all leave simultaneously”; and that brick is the English for “a sailing-ship with two masts” --taking part, maybe, in a lofing match: “in a sailing-boat regatta, the action of one of the participants consisting in an attempt to bring one of his rivals head to the wind.”
After the regatta one would presumably adjourn to a bostel “a hotel built on the water's edge, intended for amateurs of navigation,” otherwise ship lovers . Fans of sport in general might then bet on a favored hurole-racer or watch a bout at walter --“in boxing, medium weight about 65 kg.”