dinghy

Example Sentences

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Russian rapper Yegor Krid dialed a friend as he relaxed on a floating dinghy in a music clip released last year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

The colonizers, four Chagossians aged 31 to 72, clambered aboard a dinghy and came ashore, waving British and American flags.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

Some 39 people on a rubber dinghy were rescued on Thursday just south of Crete.

From Barron's • Dec. 26, 2025

In July 2015 a coastguard in Dover told the BBC that two migrants had been rescued from a dinghy just offshore in the Channel.

From BBC • Oct. 15, 2025

I climb into the dinghy, a copper rowboat so small, it doesn’t seem to be able to hold its own weight above the waterline, much less mine.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman