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Example sentences for "yacht"

Lexicographically close words:
xylographic; xylography; xylophone; yabber; yachters; yachting; yachts; yachtsman; yachtsmen
  1. Mr. Brewster studied the yacht through his binoculars and announced: "I see Stannart and Serbot, both of them.

  2. The yacht captain had accepted that explanation until Stannart and Serbot saw the Venezuelan soldiers and suddenly took flight.

  3. Finally, you hauled up beside this yacht and went on board.

  4. The captain of the yacht was astonished when told the reason for Stannart's flight.

  5. Mr. Stannart says in his letter that he will bring his yacht to meet us on our way back, and will sign the agreement with Nara, then and there.

  6. He stood at the stem of the yacht with Biff and Kamuka, while they were churning their way down the broad Orinoco toward Ciudad Bolivar, the largest port on the river.

  7. The Ajax Corporation obtained an order enabling them to take over the Coronet, and the yacht was placed in Mr. Brewster's charge.

  8. Word finally came from the directors of the Ajax Mining Corporation, stating that they had checked their accounts and found that Stannart had taken most of the available funds before starting on his Caribbean yacht trip.

  9. I'm going to take the Gregory boys for a trip in my yacht along the south coast; the Rivers lads shall come too.

  10. He said I might have had a very happy time with my cousins: gone in a yacht to the Isle of Wight and round the Land's End; and I couldn't help looking surprised.

  11. The order had only been obeyed in respect to the fore-topsail, when the squall struck the yacht with such fury that she careened, and lurched violently to port.

  12. The yacht sank so rapidly that Miss May, after being saved by Colonel Crosby from the cabin, was again placed in the greatest danger.

  13. The Mohawk was the largest and costliest of the fleet of pleasure vessels belonging to the New York Yacht Club.

  14. After the yacht it was a tug shrouded in steam and buffeting its way along that caught her exuberant notice.

  15. In the distance far below a long, narrow power yacht slipped past like a missile.

  16. This book is a continuation of the adventures of "The Rival Campers" on their prize yacht Viking.

  17. What about that yacht with sails; did it run on the water?

  18. She saw him climb into his father's little yacht to make it ready for the summer's stock from the cottage.

  19. But that didn't last long, for the next thing he knew he was on board his yacht and fifty miles out at sea with a mutinous captain--a captain who refused to put back to port when ordered to do so at once.

  20. Beyond the island a fair-sized yacht lay at anchor.

  21. The yacht quivered as though straining every timber, but it looked to Wilson a hopeless task ever to run out from under the dark cup and unchanging circumference.

  22. The yacht which still rocked at anchor grew as dim as a ghost ship.

  23. Rippling through the blue waters after dark, the yacht glided in as close to the shore as possible.

  24. In less than an hour the group was all on board the yacht which had her nose pointed straight for the open sea.

  25. It's a race between the yacht and the leak; the yacht ought to win out.

  26. Another hour passed while the yacht stumbled her clumsy course to safety.

  27. A scream fluttered from the bridge; men's voices raised in curses at the clumsy yacht were borne from the pilot-house.

  28. Yes," said Dan simply, leaning forward to take advantage of the uproll of the tug to locate the yacht more exactly.

  29. And just as I was sitting here chattering away, with no thought that we were not on a yacht ready to turn home the minute I wished to!

  30. Yet the yacht seems to be going finely--" Dan made no reply.

  31. For a few minutes the churnings of the screw were discounted by the bulk of the yacht plus the elemental forces which sought to keep her head just where it was--in the trough of the sea.

  32. And standing thus she watched him as he snapped the yacht slantwise from the grip of succeeding sea hollows and guided her over the gray hills, panting and straining, with much of pudgy deliberation, but surely.

  33. And when the two men who had given their lives for him and for the yacht came to mind in all the clearness of their personality and devotion to him, his head sank on his hand and he groaned aloud.

  34. There's a yacht in distress about a quarter of a mile off on the port hand.

  35. Is there a chance that the yacht may not get where you are taking her?

  36. The yacht was just what I wanted to speak to you about, Captain," he said.

  37. A few lights quivered from the reeling yacht and her mast-head lamps described glimmering arcs against the heavens.

  38. An oily wave reared the bow of the yacht while the swell of its predecessor slued the Fledgling in and around and upward, so that the two craft reared, side by side, bows up and not more than five feet apart.

  39. The pleasure aerodrome will take the place of the yacht and motor-car, affording grand opportunities for the mountaineer and explorer (if the latter could find anything new to explore).

  40. His yacht was surrounded by shoals of canoes full of myriads of cannibals of a race who file their teeth to look like the teeth of dogs, and hang weights in their ears till the ears hang like dogs' ears, on the shoulder.

  41. He held his yacht at the point of the revolver and got away, leaving some of his men dead on the shore.

  42. You've read of the Yacht Mystery and the lassoing of Ronald Tower?

  43. She soon learned the main details of "The Yacht Mystery.

  44. The yacht mystery is only just beginning--or I'm a Dutchman!

  45. I think you told Miss Sugg that the harbor police had picked up the motor-boat in that yacht case.

  46. The yacht was moored about three hundred feet from the landing-stage.

  47. Thus it was that Rex Carshaw, eligible young society bachelor, was drawn into the ever-widening vortex of "The Yacht Mystery.

  48. The lively inhabitants of the East Side do not bother their heads about grammatical niceties, so the gulf between "the yacht murder" and "the yacht murderers" was easily bridged.

  49. Carshaw was a friend of the Towers, and "the yacht mystery" had been deliberately squelched by the highly influential persons most concerned.

  50. Soon after breakfast she went out, heading for Brown's, her old employers in Greenwich Village, who had turned her away after the yacht affair and the arrest of her aunt.

  51. The yacht mystery" had apparently become a mere memory in the Bureau.

  52. At any rate, the yacht mystery is almost cleared up.

  53. But this forlorn girl, who knew so little of the great city in whose life she was such an insignificant item, felt oddly concerned in "The Yacht Mystery.

  54. I want to build a yacht that will defend the American cup and to own a horse that will win the derby.

  55. I'll have a couple of hotels, a yacht and a box at the opera.

  56. You could have a yacht and take a party," he continued, "and come back when you are all tired of it.

  57. I won't say anything about the yacht at present, and you can change your minds and have it if you like.

  58. But men and women were on banks and in fields; children, as usual, came trooping up to the car; and the jovial men of the yacht had great conversations with most of the persons whom we met on the road.

  59. Did we ever see in our country attorneys with mustachios; or, above all, an attorney's clerk the owner of a yacht of thirty tons?

  60. He took lodgings with his son in a modest boarding-house, and there met a Swedish sailor, a man who had been captain of a steam yacht during the summer, and now happened to be out of employment.

  61. Two coasters and a large yacht were running in for shelter without a stitch of canvas.

  62. The yacht that represented the most exhaustive skill man had ever applied to navigation had melted away, unnamed, unlicensed, and without destination.

  63. After a few minor changes the unnamed yacht will be ready for its destination.

  64. The yacht will be finished in five months, and her name is undecided.

  65. He had not touched the new yacht until after it had left the world in wonder.

  66. Can I send a messenger over to the yacht for you?

  67. Silently the party embarked, and as the boats pushed off and the sailors from Sir Percy's yacht bent to their oars, the old Abbe Foucquet began gently droning a Pater and Ave to the accompaniment of his beads.

  68. You must represent me, here, when I am gone: explain as casually and as naturally as you can, that I have gone to join my husband on his yacht for a few days.

  69. Well," said Flynn, "cutting out the minor details we discovered that the very same day a big white yacht had cleared from New York without papers and had headed toward the south.

  70. At the Marine Basin at Ulmer Park, near Coney Island, we discovered that a nondescript sort of a crew had been hustled on board and that the yacht had sailed at night without papers a few hours after her purchase was completed.

  71. Nothing will hinder that in the frequented port of Iona a “Cowes-built” yacht is waiting to be hired.

  72. Their yacht blown away before a storm, the passengers encamp in a cave and go through perilous adventures, for the scenery of which the guide-book comes in useful.

  73. Dick is marooned on an island, recovers his yacht and foils the kidnappers.

  74. The flag-ship San Francisco, the monitor Miantonomah, and the auxiliary yacht Sylvia were fired upon by the Havana batteries.

  75. The first 3-pounders were aimed at the hills right and left of the bay and in order to scare the enemy, the fighting yacht purposely avoiding firing into the town.

  76. With the fleet waiting outside, the gallant little fighting yacht Gloucester braved the mines which were supposed to be in this harbour, and, upon sounding, found that there were five fathoms of water close inshore.

  77. The yacht put hurriedly to sea, and from Gibraltar reported the outrage to London.

  78. Hawk, formerly the yacht Hermione, off the north coast of Pinar del Rio, steaming eastward, close inshore.

  79. She is a fast and entirely unprotected auxiliary vessel,—the yacht Corsair,—and has a good battery of light rapid-fire guns.

  80. He was captain of the Gloucester, that was once known as the yacht Corsair.

  81. The Bancroft, accompanied by the converted yacht Eagle, which had been covering the blockading station around the Isle of Pines, sighted a small Spanish schooner in Sigunea Bay.

  82. The Norwegian steamer Franklin, of about five hundred tons, bound from Vera Cruz with a cargo of food supplies, was captured by the converted yacht Siren off Francis Key, near Caibarien.

  83. The British steam yacht Lady of Clonmel, owned by Mr. James Wilkinson, of London, was attacked as she lay at the pier.

  84. These are hardly the times," Dave remarked, "when it would seem to any naval commander a plausible thing for a yacht to cruise in the submarine-infested Mediterranean.

  85. In any event, Whyte, the yacht must be watched.

  86. Board the yacht on her starboard quarter.

  87. Time and speed had been so calculated that the yacht should not be able to sight them by daylight.

  88. The yacht has Russian registry and is supposed to be sold to Japanese buyers to be put in trade between the United States and Japan, carrying materials from which the Japanese make Russian munitions of war.

  89. Ah, but the yacht is neither low nor narrow," replied Surigny.

  90. Such a yacht as the Count of Surigny described is at anchor in North Channel, and is reported to have a Russian prince and a Japanese nobleman on board.

  91. Even the yacht that carries the plotters is here.

  92. So you will see how plausible it is to be engaged in transferring a Russian yacht to Japanese registry at this time.

  93. There do not seem to be any men below," Dave muttered, as he explored the yacht between decks.

  94. He has told me that a yacht bearing the supervising plotters is now anchored in North Channel, and that the submarine is concealed somewhere under neighboring waters.

  95. Refined from the original Sea-Songs, for the use of the Yacht Clubs.

  96. That the Yacht Club may appreciate the value of the book, Mr. Punch subjoins a page taken at random.

  97. As a matter of fact, they were both great friends; and no doubt when Clipper went down in his yacht and left Lady Attwill very badly off, Collingwood was quite generous to her.

  98. I see papa; he is getting into a boat with some one,' said Cecilia, and gave orders for the yacht to stand in toward the Club steps.

  99. At that moment the breeze freshened and the canvas lifted from due South the yacht swung her sails to drive toward the West, and Cecilia's face and hair came out golden in the sunlight.


  100. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yacht" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.