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Recent Examples of sampan
Hong Kong: Hong Kong Harbor, one of the world’s most scenic, rewards passengers with vistas of skyscrapers, mountains, ferries and sampans.
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Georgina Cruz, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
Malay, Chinese and Indian laborers did laundry, steered sampan boats and cleared land for the White military members.
—Lilit Marcus, CNN, 16 Sep. 2022
Max, 6, my youngest, bolted past the staff lined up to greet us and planted his nose on the lee-side picture window to watch a woman in a conical hat haul a net of glittering fish onto her sampan.
—Laura Dannen Redman, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 July 2018
Housed in a pastel-yellow colonial building opposite a 16th-century church, its entrance is flanked by tall vases, depicting sampan gliding between karst hills.
—The Economist, 19 May 2018
The petite young woman who rowed our sampan had powerful, broad shoulders and tough, worn hands gripping the oars.
—Diana Lambdin Meyer, kansascity.com, 9 May 2017
Small sampan boats, ox carts, tuk-tuks, bicycle rickshaws, and your own two feet get you through two countries heavy with history.
—Veronica Stoddart, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Mar. 2017
Georgina Cruz, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
Malay, Chinese and Indian laborers did laundry, steered sampan boats and cleared land for the White military members.
—Lilit Marcus, CNN, 16 Sep. 2022
Max, 6, my youngest, bolted past the staff lined up to greet us and planted his nose on the lee-side picture window to watch a woman in a conical hat haul a net of glittering fish onto her sampan.
—Laura Dannen Redman, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 July 2018
Housed in a pastel-yellow colonial building opposite a 16th-century church, its entrance is flanked by tall vases, depicting sampan gliding between karst hills.
—The Economist, 19 May 2018
The petite young woman who rowed our sampan had powerful, broad shoulders and tough, worn hands gripping the oars.
—Diana Lambdin Meyer, kansascity.com, 9 May 2017
Small sampan boats, ox carts, tuk-tuks, bicycle rickshaws, and your own two feet get you through two countries heavy with history.
—Veronica Stoddart, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Mar. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sampan
Noun
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Fishing and Whitewater River Trips Many people don’t realize that our big rivers are a form of public lands, which is why the public gets to canoe, raft, tube, and fish on them.—
Cassidy Randall,
Forbes.com,
11 May 2025
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Currently, the city of Irvine is building out 800 additional acres of the park, adding 22 acres of cascading lakes with waterfalls, islands and a shorefront restaurant to which diners will be able to boat up to or paddle up to in canoes.—
Jonathan Horwitz,
Oc Register,
7 May 2025
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Our first glimpse of the low-lying island, roughly 500 miles south of Cairo, is of a fisherman balancing skillfully atop his rowboat in the bulrushes.—
Francine Kiefer,
Christian Science Monitor,
1 Apr. 2025
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The pair added their wishes to the wall and then headed out on a rowboat together.—
Dana Rose Falcone,
People.com,
18 Feb. 2025
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Coast Guard authorities reported that they were alerted to an overturned Panga skiff off Del Mar Beach around 6:30 a.m. EDT on Monday.—
Billal Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 May 2025
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There’s also some great hiking, beach walks, kayak tours and more skiff rides.—
Judy Koutsky,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The 24-year-old booked the Airbnb, one friend booked a pontoon boat ride and another the dinner reservations.—
Nathan Diller,
USA Today,
13 May 2025
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The couple smiled together on a pontoon boat in the photo.—
Charna Flam,
People.com,
1 May 2025
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The previous council approved a raft of tenant protections but rescinded it in 2021 under legal pressure.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
8 May 2025
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As Samsung Galaxy users finally get to upgrade to One UI 7, bringing Android 15’s raft of updates to their phones, there’s suddenly a new reason for attention to turn to One UI 8 and Android 16.—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
7 May 2025
Noun
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Colorful traditional wooden outrigger canoes called pirogues line the beach where men spend hours mending their nets.—
Sira Thierij,
NPR,
26 Dec. 2024
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As the team began to pull up its fishing nets, the pirogue pitched sharply.—
Jack Thompson,
The Christian Science Monitor,
4 June 2024
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The Sentinelese hunt in the rainforest and fish in the coastal waters using spears, bows and arrows, as well as homemade narrow outrigger canoes, according to Survival International.—
Esha Mitra,
CNN Money,
4 Apr. 2025
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Travelers interested in Polynesian culture may want to test the resort’s traditional outrigger canoe on a trip to one of the surrounding private islets that share an atoll with the Brando.—
Laura Begley Bloom,
AFAR Media,
25 Feb. 2025
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It was purchased in 1890 by brothers John and Alexander Laurie to tow vessels and barges, or scows filled with stone from nearby quarries, in Green Bay and Sturgeon Bay.—
Caitlin Looby,
Journal Sentinel,
21 Sep. 2024
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The foundation could be a raft made of tree logs; pontoon made of fiberglass, steel or aluminum; plywood barge or scow floats made from salvaged wooden and metal hulls; or box floats made of wood, metal or Styrofoam.—
oregonlive,
oregonlive,
28 Oct. 2022
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“Sampan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sampan. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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