dinghy

Example Sentences

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Russian rapper Yegor Krid dialed a friend as he relaxed on a floating dinghy in a music clip released last year.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

The colonizers, four Chagossians aged 31 to 72, clambered aboard a dinghy and came ashore, waving British and American flags.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

Survivors told IOM that the rubber dinghy had departed at around 23:00 local time from al-Zawiya, west of Tripoli.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

Some 39 people on a rubber dinghy were rescued on Thursday just south of Crete.

From Barron's • Dec. 26, 2025

Rado’s dinghy had no oars, and we were already too far from shore to swim—not that either of us was eager to jump in.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen