jolly boat

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Noun
  • Without access to many kitchen supplies, the women improvised, using wine bottles and shell casings as rolling pins and baking soda tins as cutters.
    Laura Daniella Sepulveda, AZCentral.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Walker also wanted Scherzer to execute his fastball and slider glove side, throw a strike-to-ball changeup and place his cutter at the top of the zone.
    Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In a video obtained by the Associated Press, the ship is first seen in the waters being circled by a lifeboat with emergency responders aboard.
    Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Others, a lifeboat adrift in time.
    Alma Rota, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Bake in preheated oven, rotating pans top to bottom and flipping potatoes gently after 15 minutes, until tender and golden brown, about 25 minutes.
    Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 17 Oct. 2025
  • In her tender debut short, writer-director Nishi Dugar delicately explores how children confront the first ripples of loss.
    Essie Assibu, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Luckily, the zombies in 28 Years Later have yet to invent longboats, so the island society has been able to endure, albeit on a semi-permanent war footing.
    Nate Jones, Vulture, 3 July 2025
  • Platoon after platoon scuffed down to the shoreline to clamber aboard gunboats, longboats, and six-oared, flat-bottomed bateaux.
    / CBS News, CBS News, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • Louisiana Fish Fry, the makers behind many delicious Cajun and Creole cooking products, just announced the launch of a new Dark Roux Gumbo Base, creating a premium, yet quick and convenient, solution for home chefs.
    Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The launch of Quantum System Two follows the deployment last year of our first European quantum data center with multiple installations of our best quantum computers in Germany.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Long before Jane became president of the women’s auxiliary , the Salvation Army helped her with food and clothing.
    Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Then, during World War II, at the age of 8, Anderson learned to knit from her mother and grandmother, who belonged to a knitting auxiliary, creating sweaters, vests, bed socks and more.
    Talia McWright, Twin Cities, 17 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The ship's captain ordered the crew to the yawl boat.
    Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Captain William Griffin and his crew escaped, hopping on the ship’s yawl boat, in time to see the ship and its iron ore cargo vanish underwater.
    Brian Anthony Hernandez, PEOPLE, 21 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Mules on the towpath along the canal could pull a heavy barge at a clip of 4 miles per hour – far faster than the job of dragging wagons over primitive roads.
    Christine Keiner, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Much of the barge remains above water, albeit at a precarious angle.
    Heather Richardson, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2025
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“Jolly boat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jolly%20boat. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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