dory
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Everybody thought we were lying - this place was all hunky dory.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2025
You can’t build community trust when everything’s hunky dory.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2023
Twitter has not yet said much at all in public, other than that it is cooperating with Musk and the deal is moving ahead and everything is hunky dory.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2022
While everything has seemed hunky dory so far for England, Denmark have been powered partly by the strength drawn from their traumatic start to the tournament.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 7, 2021
Lizzie set down the clam bucket and rake she’d carried from the dory and walked carefully up to him, a little wary because you never can tell what idiots might do.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
But early on specified mornings, motorized dories and skiffs headed out to sea, fishing for the local quota of cod allowed for personal consumption.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2022
Bassi’s grandfather fished halibut back when schooners carried small dories out to the fishing grounds, which made the landing of a fish that can grow to 500 pounds all the more exciting.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2019
Others climbed aboard the hulls of overturned dories to replace planks.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 12, 2015
Instead of Hopper’s dories, though, a lone sloop glided by.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2015
Breakfast and lunch she ate alone, for the men were out in the dories and Captain Strøm stayed at the helm, poring over the sea charts.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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