scow

Example Sentences

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But when the boat ran aground on a sandbar, the steel cable connecting the two snapped, sending the scow — and its two crewmen — hurtling.

From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2019

No one contemplated that our ship of state’d Become a garbage scow.

From Washington Post • Jan. 5, 2017

“I found a friend of mine who had a garbage scow and we loaded the three trucks-worth on the barge. I was out there with it. Opposite Atlantic Highlands, a few miles out.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 4, 2016

He told the story of two young men - Lawrence and Wallace Goodell - who spent one summer on a flat-bottom scow, catching hundreds of pounds of clams.

From Washington Times • Mar. 21, 2015

There were a few old boats moored on the next pier, one that looked like a coal scow, but nothing even vaguely romantic.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers