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

But more than a month later, the wooden boat carrying 101 men and boys was getting blown further and further away from its intended destination.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 18, 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

In the dream I was alone in a small wooden boat, hooked up to a humongous tarpon that was dragging me out to sea.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen