pangs

Example Sentences

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Knoblock says the city has seen a recent uptick in immigrants lacking documentation arriving in late-night and early-morning hours via pangas.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2025

I’m hit with the briny funk of catches brought in that morning by the fishermen’s pangas that line the central beach.

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2022

Heitke said smugglers are using a range of watercraft, including local wooden fishing boats known as pangas, pleasure crafts and even jet skis.

From Reuters • Aug. 20, 2021

Shrimpers catch a moment's rest on their pangas while fishing in the Upper Gulf of California in 2012.

From Slate • Dec. 30, 2013

The six porters began with their swordlike pangas to cut poles and wattles, to peel off long strips of inner bark from the thorn trees which would serve as withes.

From The Leopard Woman by White, Stewart Edward