pampas
Example Sentences
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For the first time, I could picture the legendary tropical city of Malayan sampans, Chinese street hawkers and British colonial languor.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025
Thousands more South Vietnamese took to sea in a motley group of boats, junks, rafts and sampans.
From US News • Apr. 30, 2015
On his first patrol as commander, the targets were two sampans — small, flat-bottomed wooden boats — that were being used as spy vessels off the islands of Palau.
From New York Times • Aug. 7, 2011
On rafts made of doors, on treasured family coffins, on crude inflated goatskin life-preservers, on junks and sampans, refugees from outlying districts were cruising aimlessly.
From Time Magazine Archive
Most of the men who lived here were out fishing, some not far from the shore, poling their sampans through the shallow water.
From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz
Vocabulary lists containing pampas
South America - Middle School
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South America - High School
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