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Offshore, kite surfers dance across the lagoon while fishermen paddle slender pirogues above shallow coral gardens alive with neon wrasse and ghostly butterflyfish.—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025 Colorful traditional wooden outrigger canoes called pirogues line the beach where men spend hours mending their nets.—Sira Thierij, NPR, 26 Dec. 2024 As the team began to pull up its fishing nets, the pirogue pitched sharply.—Jack Thompson, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 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.—Ruth MacLean, New York Times, 30 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for pirogue
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