How to Use prow in a Sentence

prow

noun

• The pair ended the episode draped or strung up on the prow of a ship.
  — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 24 July 2017
• The prow of each ship is, of course, shaped like the head of a dragon.
  — Patricia Dillon, Houston Chronicle, 23 June 2018
• The big sweep of circled glass here looks out like the prow of a boat.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 7 Nov. 2020
• The platform seems to jut out over the Atlantic like the prow of a ship.
  — Hannah Walhout, Travel + Leisure, 3 Mar. 2022
• Long thought to have been the prow of the Tyger, it is now ascribed to a somewhat later era.
  — John McPhee, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
• The bow is the second bedroom, the prow is a closet and the hull is a rec room and second bathroom.
  — Lainey Seyler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2018
• Hurtig, a lanky forward with a prow of bright-blond hair, loped toward the ball and sent a low, hard shot.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2023
• Beneath the prow are a cluster of built-in outdoor seats and tables.
  — WSJ, 16 Sep. 2017
• Its prow and stern were decorated with a ram’s head, sacred to the god.
  — National Geographic, 25 June 2019
• The thieves entered through the prow, broke into the tomb, and stole what is thought now to have been the most valuable grave goods, scattering the bones in the process.
  — National Geographic, 30 Dec. 2019
• Its base resembles the prow of a ship and is adorned with a sculpture by Galician artist Manolo Coia.
  — Dina Mishev, Washington Post, 7 June 2019
• The architect gave it a prow-like wall of windows that juts toward the lake, common in post and beam.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 8 Aug. 2020
• As the prow of a five-film Disney blockbuster franchise, he will never be cast out of the citadel of extreme fame and wealth.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
• Some rigs had heavy metal prows to better ram a checkpoint.
  — Tim Neville, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2018
• From prow to stern, the baby boat measures in at just 30 microns, which is about one-third of the thickness of a strand of human hair.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 29 Oct. 2020
• Tomorrow, a bottle of sparkling wine will be cracked across the prow of the 677-foot oiler, which will bring oil and parts to larger ships.
  — Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Nov. 2021
• Another is sitting on the bowsprit as the boat’s prow dips in and out of the water in a strong wind, my hair whipping around my head, the sails full of wind.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2019
• The Alnic’s prow gouged a 28-foot-wide hole into two sleeping quarters, known as Berthing 3 and Berthing 5.
  — T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 20 Dec. 2019
• The vessel was made of wood, and there was a serpentine figure carved into its prow.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2017
• Half his performance is in his bearing, chin jutted forward like the prow of a swollen yacht.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2020
• Dipping below the prow reveals a set of light clusters at both ends of the vehicle.
  — Derek Powell, Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2022
• This June brings new books that are sweeter than drinking a cocktail on the prow of a speedboat under a cloudless sky.
  — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 4 June 2021
• The composition looked like the prow of a ship moving steadily ahead through water.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2022
• The rounded prow facing northeast is cloaked in rich bands of vertical blue.
  — John King, SFChronicle.com, 21 June 2020
• Like the planks of ship converging at its prow, the tapes form an elongated V suspended just above the viewer’s head.
  — Steve Mannheimer, Indianapolis Star, 22 Mar. 2018
• An emphasis was put on the animal’s majestic prow, that noble line from the top of its forehead to the tip of its nose.
  — Mekado Murphy, New York Times, 23 July 2019
• The Cape is a massive prow, a knobby 1,300-foot-high headland that plunges directly to the sea from the southernmost flank of Isla Hornos.
  — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 7 July 2020
• Up front, the M logo cascades into an angled concave channel that slopes down from the prow.
  — Derek Powell, Car and Driver, 22 Sep. 2022
• Using toothpicks or wooden sticks from cotton swabs, make masts, booms and the spar extending from the vessel’s front prow, which is called the bowsprit.
  — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2018
• The post tells a story in two pictures: the first shows a sharply curved aircraft carrier prow that narrows to a knifelike point, which to some implies the entire bottom of the ship is knifelike.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 14 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024