How to Use scow in a Sentence

scow

noun

• Then came the big moment: The scow began to heel to one side, its mainsail dipping toward the water.
  — Simon Peter Groebner, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2018
• Severe rain and wind has managed to move a massive iron scow that has been stuck on a rocky perch near Niagara Falls since 1918.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2019
• The crafts are destroyed on impact and handily fished out by attending boaters who drag it to a waiting garbage scow.
  — Deanna Weniger, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2019
• Conveniently, Peter, a veteran racer with the Twin Cities club, already had crewing an A-scow on his bucket list.
  — Simon Peter Groebner, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2018
• That number is a long way from the heyday of San Francisco’s working waterfront, when the Mission Creek channel was crowded with lumber schooners, hay scows and ocean-going sailing vessels.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Jan. 2018
• These incentives have spawned a meandering armada of live-aboard cabin cruisers, barges, narrowboats, and other gaily painted scows now afloat on Britain’s inland waterways, some just barely.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024