How to Use prow in a Sentence

prow

noun

• The pair ended the episode draped or strung up on the prow of a ship.
  — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 24 July 2017
• The prow of each ship is, of course, shaped like the head of a dragon.
  — Patricia Dillon, Houston Chronicle, 23 June 2018
• See the dream sail in on moonlit waves and feel the swell of its prow in your blood.
  — Literary Hub, 19 June 2026
• The platform seems to jut out over the Atlantic like the prow of a ship.
  — Hannah Walhout, Travel + Leisure, 3 Mar. 2022
• Its prow and stern were decorated with a ram’s head, sacred to the god.
  — National Geographic, 25 June 2019
• Hurtig, a lanky forward with a prow of bright-blond hair, loped toward the ball and sent a low, hard shot.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2023
• Long thought to have been the prow of the Tyger, it is now ascribed to a somewhat later era.
  — John McPhee, The New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2021
• The vessel was made of wood, and there was a serpentine figure carved into its prow.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2017
• But Acura has also been using an arrow-like prow for some time, too.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 15 Aug. 2025
• Half his performance is in his bearing, chin jutted forward like the prow of a swollen yacht.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2020
• The rounded prow facing northeast is cloaked in rich bands of vertical blue.
  — John King, SFChronicle.com, 21 June 2020
• The bow is the second bedroom, the prow is a closet and the hull is a rec room and second bathroom.
  — Lainey Seyler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2018
• The architect gave it a prow-like wall of windows that juts toward the lake, common in post and beam.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 8 Aug. 2020
• Dipping below the prow reveals a set of light clusters at both ends of the vehicle.
  — Derek Powell, Car and Driver, 18 Aug. 2022
• The composition looked like the prow of a ship moving steadily ahead through water.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2022
• Getler hadn’t known what to make of those horizontal lines that converged upward into a prow.
  — Washington Post, 2 May 2022
• The hydrophone system will dangle in the water suspended from this boat’s prow.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 28 Apr. 2016
• The ship’s bulbous prow thrust upward, riding a ledge, penguins scattering in its path.
  — Author: Richard Read, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Aug. 2019
• As the prow of a five-film Disney blockbuster franchise, he will never be cast out of the citadel of extreme fame and wealth.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
• This June brings new books that are sweeter than drinking a cocktail on the prow of a speedboat under a cloudless sky.
  — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 4 June 2021
• An emphasis was put on the animal’s majestic prow, that noble line from the top of its forehead to the tip of its nose.
  — Mekado Murphy, New York Times, 23 July 2019
• Another is sitting on the bowsprit as the boat’s prow dips in and out of the water in a strong wind, my hair whipping around my head, the sails full of wind.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2019
• Its base resembles the prow of a ship and is adorned with a sculpture by Galician artist Manolo Coia.
  — Dina Mishev, Washington Post, 7 June 2019
• The thieves entered through the prow, broke into the tomb, and stole what is thought now to have been the most valuable grave goods, scattering the bones in the process.
  — National Geographic, 30 Dec. 2019
• From prow to stern, the baby boat measures in at just 30 microns, which is about one-third of the thickness of a strand of human hair.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 29 Oct. 2020
• Though, the cottage’s triangular shape is actually closer to the prow of a ship.
  — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 23 Feb. 2023
• Using toothpicks or wooden sticks from cotton swabs, make masts, booms and the spar extending from the vessel’s front prow, which is called the bowsprit.
  — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2018
• Guidry, at the prow, raised the lantern, revealed in the circle oflight a bobbing tangle of sargassum weed, a swimming snake, a child’s cloth doll.
  — Literary Hub, 16 July 2026
• Tomorrow, a bottle of sparkling wine will be cracked across the prow of the 677-foot oiler, which will bring oil and parts to larger ships.
  — Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Nov. 2021
• Designed to look like a ship, the house has an enormous prow-like architectural protrusion over the entryway.
  — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 30 July 2021