canoe
Example Sentences
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Since he got back, he’s never so much as set foot in a canoe.
From Literature
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One fine day they bade goodbye to their families and set off upstream in a canoe, promising to return with the rains.
From Literature
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As Sobie spoke to the BBC, canoes - steered with paddles or long bamboo poles - moved through the narrow waterways, carrying mattresses and sacks of clothes belonging to the displaced people.
From BBC
“Anyway, these magic shells allowed the fisherman to always return with a canoe full of he‘e, enough octopus for feed his whole village.
From Literature
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A 2021 photograph by Maree Clarke is an exception; family members in traditional regalia are seated by a reed canoe, with the skyline of Melbourne in the background, powerfully fusing past and present.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.