wooden boat

Example Sentences

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Massive cargo ships passed them by almost every day, destabilizing the shaky wooden boat in their wakes.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 18, 2023

I fled to Delhi, then Kuala Lumpur, before taking a wooden boat across the Strait of Malacca.

From BBC • Nov. 3, 2023

The Red Cross, which was helping to treat the migrants, said a wooden boat that arrived on the island of El Hierro marked a record number of arrivals in a single boat.

From Reuters • Oct. 21, 2023

Archaeologists have almost finished unearthing a 19th-century wooden boat found by Florida road crews last week, the Florida Department of Transportation announced Wednesday.

From Washington Times • Oct. 11, 2023

He was in his home in New Orleans and beside him he could hear his wife Kathy breathing, her exhalations not unlike the shushing of water against the hull of a wooden boat.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers