A fast motorboat

Usage examples of speedboat.

The sun was setting on the lush Columbian landscape as the two women were unceremoniously hauled from the speedboat like bags of potatoes, then roughly shoved along a dock, up some stairs and into a house styled after a Spanish villa.

Mimm makes them bring all their presents to her party and has them given away there by her own Santa Claus and Betty Lou says she is glad they cannot take her speedboat there, and so is Fatso when he comes to think it over.

Snow-foiling in Austria, she was among the first to get one of those snow leopards, silent beasts as fast as speedboats.

With his new maneuver, Wheels Bryant was bringing the speedboat almost to a stop.

From the battered speedboat, the police had reclaimed the wealth which Wheels Bryant had sought to gain from the wreckage of the schemes which The Shadow had frustrated.

Ten thousand bucks was a new trailer, or a new truck, or maybe one of those Checkmate speedboats that Boog Powell was selling.

The minister of industrial policy had arrived, tying up an ancient fiberglass speedboat retrofitted with ribbed lateen sails.

He and Blanda had been picked up almost at once by a speedboat operated by a conspirator.

Tens of thousands of years before the arrival of Austronesians, New Guineans had colonized the Bismarck and Solomon Archipelagoes, and a trade in obsidian (a volcanic stone suitable for making sharp tools) was thriving in the Bismarcks at least 18,000 SPEEDBOAT TO POLYNESIA "351 years before the Austronesians arrived.

Liu Taunus glanced after the rising speedboat, looked at Calat, and spoke loudly and emphatically in Fleetlingue for a few seconds, his broad face without expression.

To him, there had always been a kind of simple excitement in the mere motion of driving through New York in an open car at night, the car like a speedboat skimming through the tall angular canyons, dwarfed even by limousines like sedate yachts, and buses like behemoths towering and roaring clumsily along the stream.

I resented the topless sunbathers, the palm trees and aloe vera plants, the shingly beaches and the exquisite blue sea, the casino and the hotels, the villas on the hills, the skyscraper apartment blocks, the suntanned youths on motorbikes, the wind surfers and paraskiers, the speedboats, pedalos and beach huts.

They returned the borrowed speedboat to the marina and went back to Coral Gables.

I just think that if we had more sea room, we would have a little more reaction time if and when Ahmad the Awful cranks up his Cessna or speedboat and comes roaring out to sink us.

This had ended in four of them having to dive off their speedboat after Simon accidentally launched a CS gas canister from his weapon when they hit an unexpectedly large wave.