wooden boat
Example Sentences
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A rickety, leaky wooden boat that brought them from Bangladesh was moored on a lighthouse island not far from the village, he said.
From Washington Times • Dec. 31, 2023
I fled to Delhi, then Kuala Lumpur, before taking a wooden boat across the Strait of Malacca.
From BBC • Nov. 3, 2023
The Red Cross, which was helping to treat the migrants, said a wooden boat that arrived on the island of El Hierro marked a record number of arrivals in a single boat.
From Reuters • Oct. 21, 2023
His wooden boat rocking as excavators and construction trucks roar nearby, fisherman Erwin laments the constant ship traffic delivering supplies to the remote area.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 13, 2023
He was in his home in New Orleans and beside him he could hear his wife Kathy breathing, her exhalations not unlike the shushing of water against the hull of a wooden boat.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
