prowls
Example Sentences
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Cargo ships anchored in the bay point their long prows at the open sea, whose azure waters contrast with expanses of arid land.
From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2022
The boxes were stacked in his echoing workshop like the prows of ships waiting for passengers.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 4, 2020
In the next hundred years, ships setting out from northern nations—and especially, from England—regularly turned their prows toward the Pole.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 17, 2017
An early billboard by the Two-Tailed Dog showed the prows of three sculls marked Oxford, Cambridge and, trailing noticeably behind, Hungarian Universities.
From The Guardian • Jan. 6, 2016
They walked past the faded banners, broken shields, and rusted swords of a hundred ancient victories, and a score of wooden figures, cracked and worm-riddled, that could only have adorned the prows of ships.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
