rowboat
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of rowboat
Example Sentences
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Slowly it moved its flippers like the oars of a rowboat, turning toward Renata and bobbing its head as if in greeting as it went past.
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“It’s impossiblated to moor at the foot of their mountain, so you’ll have to drop anchor further out. You can rowboat in. I shall guard the ship. If marauders come, I shall eats them.”
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I’m sitting beside a rowboat in a foot of murky water.
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In my mind it’s summer, and I’m in one of the rowboats on the pond, rocking back and forth.
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Behind, at some distance, is a rowboat with whalers.
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