rowboat
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Behind, at some distance, is a rowboat with whalers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
Kids cannon-balled off the sides and rocked it like a rowboat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 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
In another moment she would lose every shred of commonsense and pride and fling herself into the water after the rowboat and plead with them not to leave her behind.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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
Reserve a free one-hour rental to take one of CWB’s pea-pod rowboats for a ride on Lake Union.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 30, 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
They patched together a flotilla of 300 boats, including large fishing vessels, rowboats and kayaks, and began furtively ferrying Jews on a voyage to Sweden that could last three hours.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2022
His paternal grandfather had made his living handcrafting rowboats for the professional watermen who plied the Thames in London, providing water-taxi and ferry services as their predecessors had done for centuries.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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