pirogue

Example Sentences

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At a command, the pirogue and the canoes drew up together in formation, and three rounds were fired into the air.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

He recounted how once they boarded the pirogue, he and the other passengers were covered with a tarpaulin: "I closed my eyes and thought of my mother," he said.

From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026

The IOM said around 300 people had boarded a wooden pirogue boat in Gambia, and spent seven days at sea before the boat capsized on 22 July.

From BBC • Jul. 24, 2024

Artists hung paintings from trees, converted the walls of stores and restaurants into galleries, and filled some of Dakar’s run-down architectural gems with installations — piles of rubble, pieces of pirogue boats, a tennis court.

From New York Times • May 30, 2024

But our wordlessness hadn’t changed in the morning; he got up and settled back into the pirogue without a sound.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer