On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Sloop. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Sloop meaning
- A single-masted sailboat with only one headsail.
- A sailing warship, smaller than a frigate, with its guns all on one deck.
- A sloop-of-war, smaller than a frigate, larger than a corvette.
Synonyms of Sloop
Using Sloop
- The main meaning on this page is: A single-masted sailboat with only one headsail. | A sailing warship, smaller than a frigate, with its guns all on one deck. | A sloop-of-war, smaller than a frigate, larger than a corvette.
- Useful related words include: sailing vessel, sailing ship.
- In the example corpus, sloop often appears in combinations such as: the sloop, sloop of, sloop rig.
Context around Sloop
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 10 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sloop
- In this selection, "sloop" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, rigged, monohull, bermuda, rig, further and sometimes stand out and add context to how "sloop" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a bermuda sloop sometimes a and a bermudan sloop. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sloop" sits close to words such as abattoir, agi and agitations, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sloop
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
That's when he met Michael Sloop. (7 words)
After a few months, his sloop became damaged beyond repair. (10 words)
Sloop is a Scotland County native with 31 years of educational experience. (12 words)
Black-beard bid him send his Boat on Board, that he might see who he was; but Mr. Maynard reply'd thus; I cannot spare my Boat, but I will come aboard of you as soon as I can, with my Sloop. (42 words)
Types of sails and layouts Diagram of a Bermuda or Marconi rig on a typical monohull sloop further A traditional modern yacht is technically called a " Bermuda sloop " (sometimes a "Bermudan sloop"). (32 words)
The mast of a fractional-rigged sloop may be placed farther forward; compared to a masthead-rigged sloop, this results in a rather smaller jib relative to the size of the mainsail. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
Rationale behind the sloop rig Typical Bermuda rigged sloop After the cat rig, which has only a mainsail, the sloop rig is one of the simpler sailing rig configurations.
Types of sails and layouts Diagram of a Bermuda or Marconi rig on a typical monohull sloop further A traditional modern yacht is technically called a " Bermuda sloop " (sometimes a "Bermudan sloop").
A sloop is any boat that has a single mast and usually a single headsail (generally a jib) in addition to the mainsail ( Bermuda rig but c.f. Friendship sloop ).
Note that a " sloop of war ", in the naval sense, may well have more than one mast, and is not properly a sloop by the modern meaning.
The mast of a fractional-rigged sloop may be placed farther forward; compared to a masthead-rigged sloop, this results in a rather smaller jib relative to the size of the mainsail.
Sailed solo with hiking planks and a high-aspect sloop rig, they’re exceptionally fast and exciting to sail and watch.
Sloop is a Scotland County native with 31 years of educational experience.
Stella’s early Copper Paintings (1961) used the barnacle-repellent gunk with which he had caulked his father’s sloop the summer before.
The first USS Antietam was a screw sloop of war and construction began in 1864 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
According to an incident report, Sloop appeared under the influence of an unknown substance.
That's when he met Michael Sloop.
An authentic vintage launching by a team of oxen was attended by hundreds to see the result of the complete rebuild of the famous 118-year-old Morse-built sloop.
At the height of the Caicos Sloop era, more than 100 boat builders were found across the main inhabited islands in the Turks & Caicos.
After a few months, his sloop became damaged beyond repair.
A sloop has a simple system of mast rigging — a forestay (connecting the mast to bow), a backstay (mast to stern) and shrouds (mast to sides).
A surviving example of the Q-ships is HMS Saxifrage, a Flower-class sloop of the Anchusa group completed in 1918.
Black-beard bid him send his Boat on Board, that he might see who he was; but Mr. Maynard reply'd thus; I cannot spare my Boat, but I will come aboard of you as soon as I can, with my Sloop.
Bostock's deposition details Teach's command of two vessels: a sloop and a large French guineaman, Dutch-built, with 36 cannon and a crew of 300 men.
By having only two sails, the individual sails of a sloop are larger than those of an equivalent cutter, yawl or ketch.
Despite opinion that such a voyage was impossible, Slocum rebuilt a derelict convert sloop Spray and sailed her single-handed around the world.
Common combinations with sloop
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the sloop 6×
- sloop of 4×
- sloop rig 3×
- sloop may 3×
- of sloop 3×
- sloop is 2×
- sloop the 2×
- screw sloop 2×
- sloop in 2×
- his sloop 2×