curraghs

variants or currachs
plural of curragh

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for curraghs
Noun
  • One group, including several actors and Prida, was waist-deep in a river testing canoes for the film’s opening scene when the water began to rapidly rise.
    Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The local media loved this and similar stunts the group pulled, such as attaching wings to bicycles, attempting to fly over the river, and towing bicycles on rafts behind canoes.
    Carlton Reid, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The local media loved this and similar stunts the group pulled, such as attaching wings to bicycles, attempting to fly over the river, and towing bicycles on rafts behind canoes.
    Carlton Reid, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • During the float season, rafts and tubes are available for rent and shuttles are available at Ann Morrison Park at the end of the float for transfer back to Barber Park.
    Shannon Tyler, Idaho Statesman, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Some lava tubes that wrap across the surface of the Red Planet could make perfect protective shells to position prefabricated human habitats transported aboard the massive Starship capsules that are now counting down to descending on Mars.
    Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Exposure to the pesticide DDT in the 1960s weakened the shells of eggs laid by merlins and other raptors, and fewer of their chicks survived.
    Tom Langen, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The band would hone that signature sound through numerous gigs and recordings beginning in 1979.
    Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Hoosiers can hunt frogs with bow and arrows, clubs, some firearms, or simply, their hands, but Plumier teaches those gathered at Goose Pond how to use gigs — long, multi-pronged spears that look a little bit like tridents.
    Sophie Hartley, IndyStar, 9 Sep. 2025
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“Curraghs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curraghs. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.

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