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Example sentences for "kyak"

Lexicographically close words:
kvin; kwacha; kwanza; kyack; kyacks; kyaks; kyamuni; kyar; kyard; kyards
  1. The eldest had taken a trip on the ocean in his kyak or light skin boat.

  2. He went out in his kyak and had not proceeded far from shore when his attention was attracted by what appeared to be a whale in the distance.

  3. From a hole in the rocks Koki now hauled his kyak or small skin boat, where he had left it from a former trip, and dragging it down upon the ice, he lashed it upon the small sled to be carried still farther.

  4. Mollie and I had both to ride upon one sled now, for Ituk had lashed the kyak upon the little one, and they were one dog short, as an animal had run away while they were eating supper at the Home.

  5. Murray had foreseen as inevitable the abandonment by the Trust of its Cortez route, but its change of base to Kyak had come as a startling surprise and as an almost crushing blow.

  6. The ore will have to be hauled, or smelted on the ground, while we have the Kyak coal-fields at our door.

  7. Gordon had been one of the first locaters in the Kyak coal- fields, and he had also purchased a copper prospect a few miles down the bay from Cortez, where he had started a town which he called Hope.

  8. Later he came upon a laborer dickering with a Kyak Indian over the price of a fur robe, and in front of a bunk-house he found other members of the night crew talking earnestly with two lately arrived strangers.

  9. Me for Kyak where there ain't a store, and my gum all wet.

  10. Any great principle may work evil if it isn't properly directed, and in Kyak you'll see the results of conservation ignorantly applied.

  11. He had dropped his coal interests at Kyak in favor of the copper- mine, because they failed to yield quick profits.

  12. I was one of the first men in the Kyak fields, and I invested heavily.

  13. Kyak was a great mistake," he admitted, when O'Neil had given him the particulars he asked for.

  14. There are a dozen men in Kyak to-night who could put up a much stronger case than I.

  15. They remained in Kyak so that Eliza might complete her investigations.

  16. Kyak is an open harbor, and he says no breakwater can be built there to withstand the storms.

  17. By purchasing for a song the McDermott rights at Kyak he had placed himself in position to share in the benefits of the Heidlemann breakwater, and by rapidly pushing his tracks ahead he made his rivalry seem formidable.

  18. If, following retreating ice, they first struck the frozen ocean at the mouth of Mackenzie's River and then invented the kyak and the throwing-stick, thence we may follow both of these in two directions as they depart from a single source.

  19. It must not be forgotten, also, that the kyak is a very frail, unsteady thing, and therefore not much of the momentum of the body can be utilized, as it is by the Northwest Indians in making a lunge with a heavy shaft.

  20. Then he gave a great sweep with his paddle and lifted his kyak right up on to it.

  21. One April morning Kesshoo was working on his kyak to make sure that it was in perfect order for the spring walrus hunting.

  22. In a second the kyak turned bottom side up in the water!

  23. No water could get into the kyak because Kesshoo's skin coat was drawn tight over the hole in the deck, and Kesshoo was in the coat!

  24. He wasn't even afraid about the cakes of ice that were floating in the water, though there is nothing more dangerous than to go out in a kyak among ice floes.

  25. Kesshoo paddled slowly and carefully along, until at last there was only a little strip of water between the kyak and the solid ice.

  26. The kyak was between him and the solid ice, and Menie could not possibly get into the kyak.

  27. But Kesshoo was the best hunter and the best kyak man in the whole village.

  28. The boats were heavily loaded with dried fish, there were great piles of new skins heaped in the woman-boats, and every kyak towed a seal.

  29. Then he took the kyak on his shoulders and ran with it to the beach.

  30. It was very lucky for the twins that their father was such a brave and skillful kyak man.

  31. Then he got in and fitted the bottom of his skin jacket over the kyak hole and carefully slid himself into the open water.

  32. Slowly Kesshoo drew the line taut, turned his kyak round, and started for the shore.

  33. Kesshoo had been out in a kyak to see it.

  34. One bump from a floating cake of ice is enough to upset any boat, and I don't like to think of what might happen if a kyak should get between two big cakes of ice.

  35. Menie could see him running up the beach after the birds, and he could see his father working over his kyak near his home.

  36. When Mac and the Boy brought the sled home a couple of days later, it was found that a portion of its cargo consisted of a toy kyak and two bottles of hootchino, the maddening drink concocted by the natives out of fermented dough and sugar.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kyak" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.