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Examples of tall ship in a Sentence
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The idea that people won’t come downtown without a major investment and project has already been proven false by the crowds that attended the German Christmas marketplace and filled the promenade recently on a warm Sunday when the only attraction was one tall ship.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 13 Mar. 2024
Key West Historic Seaport Key West’s old seaport is a gem: a waterfront harborwalk with shopping and dining in the middle of a marina that features fishing charters, sunset-sailing catamarans and tall ships.
—Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
While some smaller sailing companies rely more fully on a where-the-wind-takes-you approach, with no set route or cruising speeds, larger tall ship lines like Star Clippers have itineraries to keep.
—Elissa Garay, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Oct. 2023
The Dutch tall ship Oosterschelde began its two year mission as a floating laboratory, where about 200 conservationists and naturalists will gather along the way to take part in a project called Darwin200.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 Aug. 2023
The nineteenth century is just visible in the background, walled off by plywood fencing: the masts of the South Street Seaport Museum’s tall ships rise like barren pines, and iron-and-brick waterfront warehouses appear crisp and silvery in the bright early light.
—Nicole Rudick, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
The tall ship industry is kind of upside down right now. ...
—Journal Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2023
Photo: Fritz Goro The Slips of lower Manhattan—sites of former ship berths on the East River, now landfill paved into streets and plazas—evoke, in our historical memory, the tall ships and chandleries of the 19th century, when trade and New York Harbor fueled the city’s explosive growth.
—Hamilton Cain, WSJ, 28 July 2023
Start at the southern edge of Lake Huron and watch the tall ship schooners or shop in the downtown antiques market in Bay City.
—Claire Trageser, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
circa 1548, in the meaning defined above
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“Tall ship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tall%20ship. Accessed 16 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
tall ship
noun
: a sailing vessel with at least two masts
especially
: square-rigger
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