rowing boat

chiefly British

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for rowing boat
Noun
  • Some river locations have boat launches where participants are encouraged to bring their kayaks, paddle boards, canoes or motor boats (where appropriate) to access hard-to-reach coastlines.
    Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Take a hike on the North Pond Wildlife Trail to spot wildlife, relax on the beach, or take a canoe or kayak to paddle around the marshy channels.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 5 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Antoni was a contributor to Project 2025, the controversial conservative policy blueprint designed to help Trump and his officials achieve a raft of goals in his second term in the White House.
    Dan Mangan, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2025
  • In fact, fire ants build rafts using their own bodies when their underground nests flood from rainfall—without using any means of communication.
    Madeleine Beekman August 11, Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • When every dinner was a cookout with hot dogs and shoestring potato chips, and hours of swimming, chicken fights, sunburn, trolling for bass with a popping bug behind the rowboat and exploring the surrounding woods.
    David McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2025
  • Newton enlisted the help of his younger brother and a friend, who agreed to follow along behind him in a rowboat with food and other supplies.
    Nick Woltman, Twin Cities, 6 July 2025
Noun
  • The business did file a petition for limitation for liability in federal court related to a Sept. 11, 2024, crash involving one of its rental pontoon boats, which hit another vessel near New River in Fort Lauderdale, records show.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 14 Aug. 2025
  • But there’s also the Audubon Bird Sanctuary and Alabama Aquarium at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab. Dauphin Island village at the island’s east end offers restaurants and deep-sea fishing charters as well as rental speedboats, pontoon boats and jet skis.
    CNN.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 8 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The outlet reported a rescue boat was deployed to help the man, who was pulled from the sea onto a dinghy, but did not survive.
    Colson Thayer, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Triano saw the force of the explosion fling people into the water and rode over on his dinghy to help.
    Angie DiMichele, Sun Sentinel, 27 May 2025
Noun
  • Lido Beach is just a quick jaunt from the popular shopping district St. Armands Circle, South Lido Beach is a quiet stretch best known for manatee spotting on kayaks, and famed Siesta Beach on nearby Siesta Key has been named best beach in America by Tripadvisor.
    Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The ultimate is an off-the-grid, island-hopping kayak camping trip.
    CNN.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 8 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Watkins eased our skiff through a mangrove swamp of squawking and soaring red-footed boobies and frigatebirds numbering in the tens of thousands.
    Kevin Gepford, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Beyond, two men in straw hats share a skiff, an image of blissful communion.
    James Meyer, Artforum, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • Per Brooklyn Vegan, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich spoke to Howard Stern on Wednesday (Aug. 6) to discuss the upcoming gig, where the co-founding percussionist also addressed current rumors that the band may be bringing their show to Las Vegas venue Sphere as one of its famed residencies.
    Tyler Jenke, Billboard, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Another gig Ulrich is hopeful about: The halftime show at the 2026 Super Bowl, which will be played at Levi’s Stadium outside of the band’s native San Francisco.
    Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
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