skiff

Example Sentences

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Teams in traditional skiffs rowed up a stretch of the river to begin the annual census of the birds that was postponed in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic.

From Reuters

Their immediate focus is on the Tokyo Olympics and continuing to dominate above the waterline in the high-performance 49er skiff.

From Seattle Times

Burling and Tuke will be looking to defend their gold medal in the high-performance 49er skiff less than five months after helping Emirates Team New Zealand successfully defend the America’s Cup.

From Seattle Times

They saw him about 10 minutes later a half-mile west of the Crescent Bay Buoy 2, where he was traveling westward using the skiff’s kicker motor.

From Seattle Times

But in others still, I know the feelings were simply pushed away “like a skiff at the shore,” as a poet once put it, “no longer useful.”

From New York Times