prow
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In the book’s moving final pages, the mouse faces down the oncoming waves with all the fierceness of a captain at the prow of her ship.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
It’s as if he’s plowing forward on the prow of a ship.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2025
A shoulder bag with a disposable diaper, baby bottle and infant shoes sits on one prow alongside tins of anchovies and tuna from Tunisia and many plastic sandals.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2024
The casting of Thiéry, with his physical solidity, his fat-sausage fingers and rough-hewed face — his ponderous brow juts out like a ship’s prow — is crucial in this regard.
From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2023
He aimed the denuded prow of the wagon toward the Algiers ferry ramp, where the longshoremen gathered in the afternoons.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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