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Sentence Examples Six clubs and a similar number of skiff regattas exist from the Skiff Club, Teddington upstream. My first job was handline fishing for mackerel off Kilkeel in a skiff I owned with my brother. Crucial traits all, when your reel is screeching and a 20-pound snook is towing your skiff into deep water. Joel cut the motor, the only sound was the water lapping the side of the skiff. Sitting on the stern of the skiff I swung my legs into the boat then made myself comfortable in one of the padded seats. He then rolled the hide into a bundle, placed the bundle in an oilskin sack, and began leading the way back to their skiff. He hoisted a heavy, laden pack onto his back, closed up the skiff, and bore a groundsheet and heavy sleeping-bag in his arms. We head offshore, speeding across deeper water, but another skiff off our starboard bow seems to have the same idea. His family summered on Block Island and as a teenager, he occupied his days with an outboard skiff, fishing, clamming, and catching lobsters. The hull design is based on the Chincoteague skiff, a nineteenth century Chesapeake oysterman hull. The other local fishermen go out and look at Santiago's skiff and measure the length of the marlin's skeleton. He is moderately stern, but amused when Billy stands in the skiff and waves good-bye to his merchant sailor friends. His boat is a small skiff with a 25 hp engine, which seriously limits how many people he can take out. A heavy skiff is launched off the seiner's stern to anchor its enormous net. To complete my journey, first to Naa, then to Tebua, I travel with Nakibae Teuatabo's son Kabiea, who sits in the stern of our skiff. Instead of days and nights on the river in a cool rickety skiff, we get half an hour in a common rowboat. There was an octagonal fountain so large you could row about it in a skiff. The next day we were to leave on an open skiff down the Paraguay River for New Germany. It is certainly very enjoyable, a music-hall-style adaptation of the tale of three chaps in flannels traversing the Thames in a skiff. Dutifully, he beached his skiff, dragged his mast and sails into their shed, and finally crawled off to his shack, to welcome slumber. Show More Sentences It was bitterly cold, with a thin skiff of snow holding down the dirt and dust of the streets. Charles hurriedly had his friends assist him in launching his rowing skiff and went after the dolphins. We were walking the land in late February, a skiff of snow still on the ground. We waded ashore, and the kid with the skiff gunned the outboard and planed back through the curious seals to the big boat, now once more enshrouded in the mist. The men were placed in a skiff and given enough fuel and water to reach the shore, he added. But Peter is elsewhere now, admiring an Iron Age mattock, a chunk of quartz, and a nineteenth-century fishing skiff, actual size. Finally, the RHIB heads back to the ship, leaving the skiff and its occupants behind. He, along with the other crew members and the skipper's family, boarded the skiff. Somali families navigating a main shipping route in a tiny skiff talk to members of an approach team from HMCS Winnipeg. The master and two deck-hands found and boarded an aluminum skiff which had broken free when the vessel sank. They were rescued from the skiff by another fishing vessel which was in the vicinity. Learn the history of the skiff from the three man crew that helped build her. As repeated warnings by radio were producing no result, the helicopter crew was ordered to fire warning shots ahead of the skiff. One deckhand was in a skiff attached to the Prospect Point's port quarter by a bridle. The crew and the skipper's family escaped the sinking vessel by boarding the skiff in which they were at the time of rescue. The boarding team took control of the skiff and its occupants, and began their search. While they were being taken ashore, a herring seiner and its skiff arrived on scene. A punt is a small, flat-bottomed skiff that is steered with a long, gondolier-style pole that grapples the muddy river bottom with the hook at its end. We boarded Leach's skiff, a flat-bottomed vessel propelled by a feeble outboard. Next, fill the hole and crater completely with drywall compound, plus an additional thin skiff of compound that sits slightly proud of the surface. Show More Sentences The practice of fishing with nets and lines from shore, with the aid of a rowboat or double-ended skiff, appears to have continued well into the 19th century. We shan't go another voyage on this measly skiff, Captain Gennady orated. Still, next time I'll pilot a Thames skiff instead of driving a car! The next morning we motored out into the swamp in a tiny aluminum skiff. The sleek Graght skiff had no trouble matching them move for move. A skiff of autumn leaves blew out of the trees across the street. Slowly he raised himself from the deep cushion into which he had fallen, and found himself seated most comfortably in the sternsheets of his good friend Ratty's little skiff. When he lowered the skiff they lay gaping on the boards under a sun that withered them visibly, Suttree gripped his forepockets, searching. Achieving complete surprise, Winnipeg was within several hundred yards of the skiff when her high-powered Xenon search-light captured the pirates in its solid white beam. The Island has no pier so all public visitors arriving by sea arrive by skiff at Cuyler Harbor. What they called fishing boats then was a trap skiff. Small cockpitless fishing boats are generically referred to as pangas, and the typical San Blas panga is a skiff twenty or so feet long, made of fibreglass, with a faded yellow or turquoise paint job. On about July 9, 1610, hopeful that it had finally been granted, Caravaggio set off for Rome in a felucca, or skiff, laden with several paintings that he hoped to offer to Borghese in exchange for arranging his reprieve. The gripes were loosened and preparations were being made to launch the starboard skiff, but it was decided that it would be too dangerous to do so in the prevailing sea conditions. He climbed from the skiff and tied up at a stob and labored up the thick grassless bank toward the arches where the bridge went to earth. Now you can trawl for 100 kilometers with only flat grouper and big-eyed jacks and trevally to slap against the side of your skiff. The regulations also require that decked fishing vessels with a gross tonnage of over 15 be equipped with a lifeboat, boat, dory, skiff or seiner to accommodate all persons on board. According to the report of the last inspection completed by TCMS, the vessel was required to carry an aluminum skiff and an inflatable life raft for eight persons. What a tiny little schooner! But is it not bold to spread both sails? And see, now that we have come round to the wind, how the skiff keels over. When his deckhands rescue a mysterious young woman who is adrift in a half-swamped skiff in the middle of nowhere, he knows her presence will bring misfortune. Show More Sentences The boy picks barnacles off the bottom of the beached skiff with the point of a jackknife, while the men show the police captain the Frenchman's clothes and flipper, the wet pencil box, the drawings from his room. The pirates who attacked the Norwegian tanker MV Front Ardenne fling up their hands in surrender when their skiff is seized by a boarding party from HMCS Winnipeg in a rigid-hulled inflatable boat. After the net is drawn away from the seiner, the fish are encircled and the skiff then brings the free end of the net back to the seiner's starboard side, where it is secured. When the RHIB reached the skiff, a member of its crew addressed the boarding team in English, saying he and the others in the skiff were migrants from Somalia heading for Yemen in hope of a better life. The search-light operator struggled to keep the altering skiff illuminated as pre-recorded Somali commands were transmitted to the pirates over a loudspeaker. Interspersed are actual boats — a flat-bottom fishing skiff, a couple of rowing boats, six handcrafted kayaks and a 16-foot melonseed catboat, its single gaff-rigged sail unfurled. The rounded sections gave maximum displacement for the lowest wetted surface area, similar to a modern narrow rowing skiff, so were very fast but had little carrying capacity. At about 0430 Philippine-flagged motor vessel Bison Express sent a distress call concerning its apparent pursuit by a skiff containing the suspects. The author disembarks from a Lake Champlain skiff at Burlington, which resembles a fishing-town on the seacoast, although there is a sickly, unbriny smell about. Betrayed, Gruffudd and Cadwgan were forced to flee to Ireland in a skiff. Examples from Classical Literature Skiff Miller shook his head, no longer belligerent, but kindly, quick to be generous in response to generousness. Gid's not to say a teetotaler, but he had to climb into the bandwagon skiff or sink outen sight. This proved to be a sixteen-foot, clinker-built skiff that had been constructed especially to carry an out-board motor. The bathers had deserted the old man in the skiff, and were now at some distance. The most expert waterman that sculls his skiff on the Thames or Isis, is but an humble and unskillful imitator of the dabchick. A skiff grazed the side of the dazzler softly and interrupted Joe's reveries. The dazzler's skiff was brought alongside, as was also the small boat in which the two strangers had come aboard. Dragging the skiff well above high-water mark, I stacked my stuff in it, shouldered my packsack and climbed the levee. She was devoid of fear when she sat in the iron skiff, and crossed the Big Muddy with her husband at the helm. The captain of the flyboat, seeing the skiff coming up and Lamme rowing like a demon, had a ladder dropped from the deck. The next instant the oars fell, and the gig whirled round under the foudroyant's stern and came glancing up toward his own skiff. Laurent selected a skiff, which appeared so light that Camille was terrified by its fragility. Whirlpools turned her skiff round and round like a feather, and yawning gulfs threatened each moment to ingulf her. He must o' tried to keep afloat by clingin' t' the skiff, but she was down to her gunnel an' wouldn' keep a cat afloat. It is too cruel to tag her round after me, jigging this way and that like the skiff there in our wake. There were only two oars in the skiff, but I could get on perfectly well with one. The skiff, designed as sheering had said for short hops, could not accommodate the extra weight and bulk of an airlock. I p'inted the skiff the way she'd ought to go and laid to the oars. I lay down flat in the bottom of that wretched skiff and devoutly recommended my spirit to its Maker. A coryphee is testing her pretty little toes in Sir Hubert's skiff. Show More Sentences So we unhitched a skiff and pulled down the river two mile and a half, to the big scar on the hillside, and went ashore. In case I am killed, the captain's name is Roger and the skiff is called the Lightning. All the way home I kept my gaze fixed on the bottom boards of the skiff. The warnings had the desired effect and the skiff fled along and headed towards its mother ship nearby. Beneath the planks he found a skiff which he had moored there earlier in the evening, and underneath one of the thwarts he hid the bundle. By constant bailing he was able to keep the skiff from swamping. Madge looked at him beseechingly just before they arrived at their skiff. I waded through the mud, shoving the skiff before me and yammering the chant of my manhood to the world. Captain Colfax was taken to Illinois in a skiff, quarter of an hour since. The brethren are making a saw pit to saw lumber for a skiff. I told you both the gadabout and the other skiff are around the point. The headway of the skiff was slow, but my efforts were not silent. I saw their spiral-shaped and fluted shells, which Cuvier justly compares to an elegant skiff. The skiff left the bank, advancing slowly towards the isles. Then, wading along the slippery bank, I brought her to the skiff. We poled a small skiff into a shallow pothole and set up in cattails for puddle ducks. This skiff was not headed for land, but was paralleling the shore. The skiff rested, balancing with mutinous vibration, like a living thing. The skiff was half full of plunder which that gang had stole there on the wreck. Embedded in the prow of the skiff lay the spear that had been cast after me by him whom I suddenly desired to save. Show More Sentences They presently emerged into the clump of sumach bushes, looked warily out, found the coast clear, and were soon lunching and smoking in the skiff. The flat transom on the back allows the poler to spin the skiff quickly and sharply to give an angler the best possible angle for making a presentation to unsuspecting fish. I had covered some hundred yards from shore when it became evident that my pursuer must grasp the stern of the skiff within the next half-dozen strokes. The young man threw himself into a light skiff, and, seizing the oars, he sent it across the lake toward the hut of Leather-Stocking, with a pair of vigorous arms. I pulled up my centreboard, ran full tilt into the mud, took in sail, and, standing in the stern, as I had often done at low tide, I began to shove the skiff with an oar. The killer dropped quickly into the skiff beside the killed. During our conversation Ja had taken the paddle and was propelling the skiff with vigorous strokes toward a large island that lay some half-mile from the mainland. Dirk had been completely distanced in following the light skiff of the fisherman, and had just come in time to rescue the poor money digger from his pursuer. And of course, when the bleeding remnants of Bob and Nicky were sent packing in their skiff, the event must needs be celebrated in further carousal. Find more words! 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