yacht race
IPA: jˈɑtrˈeɪs
noun
- a race between crews of people in yachts
Examples of "yacht-race" in Sentences
- With what undisguised contempt they speak of the enthusiasm displayed over the ocean yacht-race!
- We say, in a regatta or yacht-race, that if the boats are anywhere nearly matched, it is the man that wins.
- a Duncan Phyfe dining-room, in an aviation port, and during a yacht-race that was only used in two flashes, in a subway and finally in a bathroom.
- Mr. Mindon, returning unexpectedly from an interrupted yacht-race, reached home with the legitimate hope of finding her at luncheon; but she was still out.
- He had run needles through three corks, and planted them in the pitch-seams of the deck to form the three points of a large triangle, in imitation of the buoys of a yacht-race course.
- While Europe seems in such ecstasy over the ocean yacht-race, there lies at anchor, stripped and dismantled, a vessel which was excluded from the match, it is said, simply because neither of the three competitors would have had a chance against her.
- Just think of that yacht-race in England the other day -- a race between two electric yachts, with a couple of vessels ploughin 'along to windward carryin' between 'em a board fence thirty feet high to keep the wind off the yachts and give 'em both smooth water and equal chance.
- He seems to be always setting out for Germany or Denmark or France, when he is not coming from Wales or Scotland or Ireland; and, when quietly at home in England, he is constantly away on visits to the houses of favored subjects, shooting pheasants or grouse or deer; or he is going from one horse-race to another or to some yacht-race or garden-party or whatever corresponds in England to a church sociable.