Example Sentences

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With engines, such colonies could be turned into Space Arks sent out to the stars.

From Scientific American • Jun. 15, 2012

Refugees, clinging to ridgepoles and treetops, beheld the Thompson showboats, lonely, imposing Noah's Arks in the modern deluge.

From Time Magazine Archive

But they've practically given up making Noah's Arks in America, and you see, these china animals will serve as toys now, and later on, when Frida is grown-up, they'll look jolly on the mantelpiece.

From Poor Relations by MacKenzie, Compton

The little men, like elves, who built the Noah's Arks, the toy animals, the dolls, and the other playthings, had been as busy as bees.

From The Story of a Plush Bear by Hope, Laura Lee

Crusoe never says exactly where these cannibals came from, but my own belief is that they came from that little Swiss town whence the little wooden animals for toy Noah's Arks also came.

From The Delicious Vice by Allison, Young Ewing