pirogue

Example Sentences

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Three crew members kept their eyes glued to the windows for the pirogue.

From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026

Packed on to an overcrowded pirogue, a traditional wooden fishing canoe, Mr Oualy could face days, even weeks, at the mercy of one of the most unforgiving seas in the world.

From BBC • Oct. 13, 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

Massive cargo ships passed the would-be migrants by almost every day, destabilizing their shaky wooden canoe-like boat, known as a pirogue.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 18, 2023

Soon after, another boat appeared, this time a massive dugout canoe, a pirogue heading downstream filled with racks of drying fish, one of the rows still wet and glistening and breathing.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer