boat person
Example Sentences
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If you’re a boat person who savors the faint scent of diesel, however, you’ll want to book Walter’s Room, a small bedroom and sitting room in the fog signal building.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
If you’re a boat person who savors the faint scent of diesel, however, you’ll want to book Walter’s Room, a small bedroom and sitting-room in the fog signal building.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
Boochani had been an Iranian dissident and a boat person; a detainee and a refugee.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2020
In 1980, when Kit was 16, he was a boat person.
From Golf Digest ● Sep. 13, 2010
He would stride the daises and the stages with his voice strong and clear, unafraid to speak the language like a Puritan and like a Chinaman and like every boat person in between.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
