The long bend opposite, and up and down stream, where no sign of life had been, suddenly disgorged skiffs and little motorboats of people whose floating homes were hidden in tiny bays, or covered by neutral colours against their backgrounds.
The prize formotorboats goes to my son Stuart for his funny-looking contraption!
The increasing noise of the engines behind them told them that the motorboats had caught up with them.
One German destroyer was torpedoed, and the British lost a destroyer, two coastal motorboats and two launches.
England has thousands of them, ranging from motorboats to naval auxiliaries, raking the English Channel, the North Sea and the waters all about the British Isles.
The motorboatsand their tows got off into the stream.
As the motorboats put ashore and the boys tied them to stubs in the high bank, they all began joking Purt about his plunge into the river.
Bobby Hargrew declared Lil Pendleton had started to pack a Saratoga trunk, and that she had been obliged to point out to Lil that neither of the motorboats was large enough to ship such a piece of baggage.
Now Purt was nearing the dock above the Main Street bridge where the motorboats were tied up.
In a moment the three boys were hurrying toward the hook-shaped cove in which the motorboats were tied up.
Since the boys returned from vacation, Scotty had been overhauling the engines on the two motorboats which were used, along with Rick's plane, for communication with Whiteside, the nearest town on the mainland.
Jack, however, remembering many other times when they had been aboard motorboats that acted queerly, or else broke down, had seen to it that there was a push-pole lashed to the side of the craft.
All right," answered the other, as he crawled out, and started under the dripping trees for the spot where the two motorboats lay in the cove, sheltered from the waves that had been dashing against the shore elsewhere.
A dozen or more of the little motorboats and coastal patrol vessels had been sunk, and the loss of life had been heavy.
Besides these, a flotilla of twenty-four motor launches and eight coastal motorboats were told off for rescue work and to make smoke screens or lay smoke floats, and nine more coastal motorboats to attack the Mole and enemy vessels inside it.
These motorboats running about the sea are a greater nuisance than the motor cars ashore--so he declares.
I suppose the swordfish shy at the motorboats just like the horses shy at automobiles!
And the motorboats have frightened all the horse-mackerel away.
Aboard each of the small motorboats every man sprang to his post.
The two foremost motorboats were The Hawk and the Lion, commanded by Lieutenant Commander Thompson and Lord Hastings.
Well, the motorboats will attack the submarines as soon as they appear.
Before the first of the foe could submerge a shell from one of the littlemotorboats struck her squarely upon the bridge, killing the captain and other officers, and shattering the conning tower.
The motorboats followed closely in the wake of the big steamship.
Of course, the torpedo boats must advance at the moment the motorboats flee.
Maybe the men in the motorboats were part of their crews and they have been lying about here all these days waiting for them to return.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "motorboats" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
