kayak

Example Sentences

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In 2002, a former math and science teacher and prison guard named John Darwin paddled a kayak into the North Sea from his home in Seaton Carew, England, and disappeared.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026

He left me a kayak at the River Road Boat Club and asked that I Venmo him $30 once I was done.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026

But the waves soon grew, flipping their boards and filling their kayak with water as they were dragged further out into the ocean.

From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026

Jung, who was a postdoctoral researcher in Werner's lab at the time, collected samples while traveling across the lake by kayak and bicycle.

From Science Daily • Jan. 10, 2026

“Your father,” she said, “went seal hunting in that ridiculous kayak. He has been gone a month this day. He will not be back. Bits of his kayak washed up on the shore.”

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George