How do you use Schooner in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like glass, plus the exact meaning.
Schooner meaning
- A sailing ship with two or more masts, all with fore-and-aft sails; if two masted, having a foremast and a mainmast.
- A glass for drinking a large measure of sherry.
- A glass of beer, of a size which varies between states (Wikipedia).
Synonyms of Schooner
Using Schooner
- The main meaning on this page is: A sailing ship with two or more masts, all with fore-and-aft sails; if two masted, having a foremast and a mainmast. | A glass for drinking a large measure of sherry. | A glass of beer, of a size which varies between states (Wikipedia).
- Useful related words include: glass, drinking glass, sailing vessel, sailing ship.
- In the example corpus, schooner often appears in combinations such as: the schooner, of schooner, wooden schooner.
Context around Schooner
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 8 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Schooner
- In this selection, "schooner" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, canadian, space, doomer, working, starlight and demeter stand out and add context to how "schooner" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 240 ton schooner clipper was and 38 meter schooner yacht with. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "schooner" sits close to words such as accosted, adair and addressable, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with schooner
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The schooner Bowdoin is perhaps its best-known and most historically significant project. (13 words)
A schooner glass (425 ml) typically holds a third less than a pint (570 ml). (15 words)
The careful art of schooner carrying in action at the Royal Crown Hotel at Dudley. (15 words)
We read of the Stranger, a slender wooden schooner swallowed by the lake in 1875, and the mysterious loss of the Kamloops, a freighter that went down in a storm in 1927 and whose sailors were found on Isle Royale the following spring. (43 words)
The star plays the captain of the doomer schooner Demeter in the film, which is based on the 'The Captain's Log' segment of Bran Stoker's 'Dracula' telling the story of the ship's final voyage from Transylvania to London. (41 words)
The remains of a building on the Bink is the old salt store and the house at the top is the old cooperage where barrels were made to store salted herring which was taken away by schooner. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
David says that it was during his cancer treatment that he had a “lightbulb” moment when he was looking at his four-foot model replica ship of the “Blue Nose”, a Canadian schooner from the 1920s.
The Coast Guard is investigating why the schooner’s main mast snapped in conditions that were not windy.
The remains of a building on the Bink is the old salt store and the house at the top is the old cooperage where barrels were made to store salted herring which was taken away by schooner.
The schooner, working with a mobile laboratory for land work, is so well equipped that scientists can analyse samples even as they voyage across 46 different European regions extending from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia.
The space schooner Starlight is on her maiden voyage, an interstellar test flight with a green crew and an unknown destination.
The star plays the captain of the doomer schooner Demeter in the film, which is based on the 'The Captain's Log' segment of Bran Stoker's 'Dracula' telling the story of the ship's final voyage from Transylvania to London.
The storm cut all telegraph lines between Boston and New York and capsized a schooner, killing 11 crew members.
We read of the Stranger, a slender wooden schooner swallowed by the lake in 1875, and the mysterious loss of the Kamloops, a freighter that went down in a storm in 1927 and whose sailors were found on Isle Royale the following spring.
A schooner glass (425 ml) typically holds a third less than a pint (570 ml).
In 1853, a 240-ton “schooner clipper” was built by Eben Turner and business partner Steven Harris at the Turner Shipyard along the South Portland waterfront.
One of the tv ads shot at the Bellbird Hotel, opens with Matt Johns enjoying a schooner of Steel City before panning to brother Andrew retelling the final moments of grand final with trademark showman's style.
On Saturday morning, October 21, 1911, a crippled wreck of a schooner, towed by a small power boat, edged its way into Portland Harbor.
The $200 million, three-masted Bermuda rigged schooner accommodates 14 people in seven cabins and is serviced by a crew of 21.
The careful art of schooner carrying in action at the Royal Crown Hotel at Dudley.
The image of the model of a schooner recalls the great wave of Vietnamese boat people who fled the Communist victory.
The Norwegian-built Quest was a schooner-rigged steamship, and Shackleton bought it specifically to travel to Canada’s High Arctic, Geiger said.
The schooner Bowdoin is perhaps its best-known and most historically significant project.
We discovered this issue when in the 1960’s and 70’s Berni Inns and then Schooner Inns were created.
But best of all might be climbing aboard the fully staffed Alexa J, a 38-meter schooner yacht with just one opulent cabin.
But, of course, David and his wife, Toni Jo, aren’t moving west with a prairie schooner full of supplies.
Common combinations with schooner
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: