Example sentences for: schooner

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

  • Its proud boast in modern times is the building of the original Bluenose racing schooner.

  • Bahamian timber schooner laborers are given credit for settling Coconut Grove, where today the prices of the most expensive condominiums run into hundreds of thousands of dollars.

  • If the schooner is out of port on one of its frequent goodwill tours down the Atlantic coast, there are several other harbor cruises well worth taking, to view the shipyards, naval installations, and fishing fleet, as well as the yacht clubs and elegant waterfront homes on the Northwest Arm inlet.

  • You may be tempted into an overnight stay by the colorful inns and folksong taverns run by retired seamen, who look as if they escaped the old schooner stranded at the southwest end of the island.

  • Anchored by Privateers’ Warehouse (Halifax was a popular haven for pirates from the Napoleonic Wars to the rum-running Prohibition Era of the 1920s) is a grand racing schooner, Bluenose II.


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