prow
Example Sentences
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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
Whenever the beach goes underwater and the waves move in, this corner building looks like the prow of a ship lost at sea.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2023
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
Roman trumpet with the rattle of the sistrum, chased the Liburnian prow with a poled barge, spread her foul mosquito nets over the Tarpeian Rock, and gave judgements among Marius’ weapons and statues.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
He was sure he saw a boat, and a skull-faced man glaring from the prow, but then he was past it.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.