rowboat
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A few years back, a sea lion jumped into a South End rowboat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
The game continues in “Boating Party,” which puts us inside a rowboat right up close to a top-hatted rower whose exertion will paradoxically pull the boat away from where we stand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2025
They had me in the SS Mooch, which was a rinky-dink rowboat.
From Salon ● May 18, 2024
In the distance stands a city on a hill; nearby, two voyagers or gods watch from a rowboat.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
The sick feeling in Nina’s stomach had nothing to do with the rocking of the rowboat.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
The Minions, we learn in their latest adventure, were originally a seafaring folk who traveled the oceans in rowboats looking for the most evil and despicable master they could possibly find.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
Thus, any rivercraft sailing past Fall City today consists only of recreational rowboats, rafts and kayaks.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
The Times tooted its own considerable horn about the armada of kayaks and rowboats it launched to deliver the newspapers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2023
As Ms. Davis emerged from her grief, she made a painting of two rowboats — “side by side but not touching,” she observed, just like “Neddy and me.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 21, 2020
In my mind it’s summer, and I’m in one of the rowboats on the pond, rocking back and forth.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
