yacht

IPA: jˈɑt

A slick and light ship for making pleasure trips or racing on water, having sails but often motor-powered. At times used as a residence offshore on a dock.
Any vessel used for private, noncommercial purposes.

Examples of "yacht" in Sentences

The NEA spent $11,797 to charter a yacht from a Hollywood, Fla., company.
Men stopped wearing hats overnight, and churches may empty in a heartbeat, but a yacht is forever.
The folk replied, O King, we have found ten men slain on the sea-shore, and the royal yacht is missing.
After that he called his yacht the _Gloria_, in imitation of her name, and sometimes took the girl out on the sea.
Many people think that was his name because it's piratical, and so it was appropriate that he called his yacht Corsair.
Now when many individuals hear the term yacht club they see a collection of yacht owners gathering often to talk about their marine experiences.
At the time of her hiring, according to Anders, she asked HP to pay to move her yacht from the East Coast to the West Coast through the Panama Canal.
She pursued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the King of France missed his daughter they brought him tidings of her, saying, “Thy yacht is lost”; and he replied,
The yacht is capable of 45 miles an hour with its 4,000 horsepower engine and when the Italians try to make a getaway in their skiff, the Streak streaks for them, "pulsing and vibrating and roaring like a thing alive" until the thieves haul in their oars and surrender.