pirogue

Example Sentences

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Three crew members kept their eyes glued to the windows for the 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

Ncula, a 22-year-old seasonal farm worker from Guinea-Bissau, had been trying to save money by working in the fields of Fass Boye before he boarded the doomed pirogue.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 18, 2023

He’d gone to Kinshasa with a pirogue full of fish and traded it all for three bags of salt and a hunk of soap.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer