boatman

Example Sentences

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"I'm an old boatman, I have experienced another four floods in the village. This was the worst," he told media.

From Reuters • Sep. 9, 2023

As the skilled boatman guides the outrigger across the reef and into the shallows, Agutaya looks like a piece of paradise.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2023

“The Kingdoms of Savannah” is an ensemble piece with no real center of gravity, and way too many kooky humans to enumerate here: a slumlord, a lazy boatman, a whistling vagrant.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2022

Ford then noticed a small tender with a furiously waving boatman, who shouted that the plane had landed in a minefield.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2021

The boatman had been alive with lice, which had disgusted the other villagers but seemed not to worry Crocodile Guts at all.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer