scow

Example Sentences

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The fate of the two men, James Harris and Gustav Lofberg, rested on an American and Canadian rescue team that coalesced about 650 feet from the scow on the Canadian shore.

From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2019

No one contemplated that our ship of state’d Become a garbage scow.

From Washington Post • Jan. 5, 2017

“I found a friend of mine who had a garbage scow and we loaded the three trucks-worth on the barge. I was out there with it. Opposite Atlantic Highlands, a few miles out.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 4, 2016

He told the story of two young men - Lawrence and Wallace Goodell - who spent one summer on a flat-bottom scow, catching hundreds of pounds of clams.

From Washington Times • Mar. 21, 2015

There were a few old boats moored on the next pier, one that looked like a coal scow, but nothing even vaguely romantic.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers