rowing boat

chiefly British

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for rowing boat
Noun
  • Visitors can stay the night in lakeside cabins or pitch a tent in the campground or a canoe campsite, which is only accessible by water.
    Kristy Christiansen, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Travelers interested in Polynesian culture may want to test the resort’s traditional outrigger canoe on a trip to one of the surrounding private islets that share an atoll with the Brando.
    Laura Begley Bloom, AFAR Media, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Under Trump's flip-flopping raft of tariffs, Washington placed a 10 percent tariff on Canadian energy, the major supplier to U.S. states hugging the northern border.
    William Lambers, Newsweek, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Signs for how Beijing plans to address these challenges will also be closely watched, after a raft of policy adjustments since last summer were seen as falling short.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Besides simply taking in the beauty of some 2,600 trees, visitors can rent rowboats and buy food and drinks at numerous food stalls.
    Katherine LaGrave, AFAR Media, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The two end their day with a romantic ride in a rowboat, which Grant has no clue how to operate.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 18 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Just for a minute, my husband and I agree, because the weather is beautiful, because my son does look like my father, because the pontoon is big and fancy and the baby has never been on a boat before.
    Julie Buntin, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
  • On Tuesday, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear told Morning Edition that he's been traveling across the state on a pontoon boat, mourning with the families of recently deceased residents and helping those who were displaced.
    Destinee Adams, NPR, 18 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Domingo Trujillo, captain of the agency's rescue vessel, told broadcaster TVE that rescuers had been aware that a pregnant woman was on the dinghy.
    Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2025
  • In 1972, Scottish sailor Dougal Robertson and his family survived for 38 days at sea in a small dinghy after killer whales sunk their schooner near the Galapagos Islands.
    Outside Online, Outside Online, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Instead, embrace the unknown and unfamiliar—travel between towns and settlements is mostly by boats, planes, helicopters, kayaks, and dog sleds, as there are no roads outside urban areas.
    Dobrina Zhekova, Vogue, 4 Mar. 2025
  • A week after Hurricane Milton sent a storm surge over Englewood in October, the animal was tangled in a crab trap that had gotten dislodged not far from the boat launch where Ms. Killian kept the kayaks and paddleboards for her business, SUP Englewood.
    Melanie Stetson Freeman, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Another could see guests hiking to a glacial lake or going for a skiff tour among icebergs.
    Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Founder Christopher Columbus Smith built his first wooden boat, a skiff, in 1874, as a 13-year-old growing up on the St. Clair River in Algonac, Michigan.
    Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 24 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Faster Pussycat will still play its gig later this week aboard an ’80s nostalgia cruise after lead singer Taime Downe’s fiancée went overboard three days ago and is now presumed dead.
    James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Mar. 2025
  • And that’s when Robinson puts a gun to Maggie’s side, indicating the gig is up.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 4 Mar. 2025
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