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Example sentences for "small boat"

  • A man would come alongside presently in a small boat, and climb aboard.

  • I move you, members of the syndicate, that the schooner Maggie II proceed to some barren, uninhabited island, and that upon arrival there this savage king and his still more savage subject be taken ashore in a small boat.

  • At this time we saw several people a shore, 4 of whom where carrying a small Boat or Canoe, which we imagin'd they were going to put in to the Water in order to Come off to us; but in this we were mistaken.

  • At the end is fastened in a Parrallel direction to the Canoe a long log of wood simply; or some have it Shaped in the form of a small Boat, but this is not common; this lays in the Water and Balances the Boat.

  • General Smith was quite unwell, and was suffering from his leg, which was swollen and very sore, from a mere abrasion in stepping into a small boat.

  • On being hailed, a small boat came in and took us on board.

  • A small boat, however, awaited my arrival and I was soon on board with the flag-officer.

  • Badgeley, with six Kroomen in a small boat, to visit the town of Bonny, and the English shipping in the river.

  • A seaman belonging to the Eden was drowned through carelessness, in upsetting a small boat on leaving the Horatio.

  • Two lovers had formed an arrangement to make an excursion from Funchal to Kama de Loba, and leaving the former place in a small boat, were in due time landed at Prior Bay.

  • Undoubtedly it came from a small boat, so low on the water was it.

  • There was no time to haul in, for the men had already run down the beach and launched their small boat.

  • One thing more," said the old man; "we shall need a small boat to tow along.

  • Behind her she towed the promised small boat.

  • Pulling along close under the stern of the Marjorie, there was seen a small boat in which was Captain Broome with his chief subordinates.

  • There was a brief interval of suspense, then there was observed, moving toward the shore from under the lea of the lugger, a small boat.

  • Others reached Panama, set sail in a small boat, and were never heard from again; while yet a third party boarded a vessel at a Nicaraguan port, and managed to reach California after almost perishing from hunger and thirst.

  • They found the two Japanese youths in a small boat, and took them on board.

  • A small boat with a pilot and midshipman was sent in to reconnoiter the harbor.

  • Each ship sent out a small boat with a rope, and when the ropes were joined the two ships were drawn close together.

  • She was filled with combustibles, and when she was close to the Moorish ships the powder was to be fired by a fuse that would give time for the crew to escape in a small boat.

  • The deep becomes indeed vasty when seen from a small boat in the center of an unbroken horizon.

  • This was the first time in his life he had ever been alone in a small boat.

  • It was necessary to have a small boat in the creek to convey the casks from and to the beach over which they were rolled, and then put into the launch; as only a small boat could enter the creek, and that only at high water.

  • This information calmed the anxiety of the Englishmen; still it deprived them of their hope of returning to Europe, unless Bell should be able to build a small boat out of the timbers of the Porpoise.

  • Can't we build a small boat out of the timber of the Porpoise?

  • She declared that she would not come in a small boat.

  • When I escaped the cruelties of Pirats and most furious stormes, a long time alone in a small Boat at Sea, and driven ashore in France, the good Lady Chanoyes bountifully assisted me.

  • It appeared to Hudson "a great bay with rivers," but too shallow to explore without a small boat.

  • There are enough surprises and mishaps in a three-days' cruise in a small boat to supply a great ship on the ocean for a full year.

  • As for excitement, there is all the difference in the world between a ship in trouble at sea, and a small boat in trouble on land-locked water.

  • In contrast with the foregoing, about the liveliest eight days of my life were spent in a small boat on the west coast of Korea.

  • My mouth remained open, for I learned what a real sailor was in a small boat.

  • Put him in a small boat and he is helpless.

  • In trying to make San Francisco harbor they ran aground, and Sherman went off in a small boat to reach the city and bring help.

  • We asserted that we were not afraid to go around the world in a small boat, say forty feet long.

  • It is a small boat, and we'll be packed close together.

  • Now, gentle reader, what would you do if you were on a small boat, rolling in the trough of the sea, a trysail on that small boat's stern that was unable to swing the bow up into the wind?

  • Furthermore, a small boat, by the wind and bucking into a big headsea, does not work to advantage.

  • My experience with them has been that it is harder to take care of one captain on a small boat than of two small babies.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small boat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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