canoe

Example Sentences

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Her husband, Joseph Hougebe, remembers whistling into the night, eagerly waiting to hear a paddle tapping against the hull of a dugout canoe -- coded signals in the darkness.

From Barron's

Since he got back, he’s never so much as set foot in a canoe.

From Literature

One fine day they bade goodbye to their families and set off upstream in a canoe, promising to return with the rains.

From Literature

As Sobie spoke to the BBC, canoes - steered with paddles or long bamboo poles - moved through the narrow waterways, carrying mattresses and sacks of clothes belonging to the displaced people.

From BBC

“Anyway, these magic shells allowed the fisherman to always return with a canoe full of he‘e, enough octopus for feed his whole village.

From Literature