Sentence examples for a Thames skiff from inspiring English sources

Pink Floyd's creative director Aubrey Powell picked a lighter and more dreamlike piece to grace the cover: a single man, his white shirt unbuttoned and blowing back in the wind, paddling a Thames skiff across a sea of clouds.

How about a Thames estuary airport instead?

He was a Thames lighterman.

It was a Coleman Scanoe — a skiff canoe, fourteen feet long and with a wider than usual thirty-eight-inch beam.

He had spent most of the year doing the same, often floating round in a small skiff on the Thames or perched in Bisham wood, near Marlow, to bring to birth his enormous mythical-French-revolution poem, "The Revolt of Islam".

Firefighters began ferrying the anglers to shore, using a Hovercraft and a skiff.

If you were African American, you could get a job rowing a skiff, or pulling in shad nets.

I always thought a skiff was a small boat.

SPRINGING In a skiff on a sunrisen lake we are watchers.

A yellow skiff, also askew, says "The Terrace Tavern Public House".

The author has launched this endearing character on a frail skiff, then swamped it with supplies.