pirogue
Example Sentences
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At noon on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 1806, five large canoes and a pirogue approached the township of St. Louis in the Louisiana Territory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
The joy of having made it outweighed the difficulty some were having walking after days crammed into a pirogue.
From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026
Packed on to an overcrowded pirogue, a traditional wooden fishing canoe, Mr Oualy could face days, even weeks, at the mercy of one of the most unforgiving seas in the world.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2024
Artists hung paintings from trees, converted the walls of stores and restaurants into galleries, and filled some of Dakar’s run-down architectural gems with installations — piles of rubble, pieces of pirogue boats, a tennis court.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2024
But our wordlessness hadn’t changed in the morning; he got up and settled back into the pirogue without a sound.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
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