Sentence examples for a boatman from inspiring English sources

And a boatman slept on a dock, ignoring calls from passengers on a nearby jetty.

Until then, he was a farmer; now he is a boatman, ferrying passengers over his fields.

One evening he nearly struck a boatman, whose vessel shot out unexpectedly from under the bridge.

A boatman poled on the lake, upright like a Chinese dragon.

We hailed a boatman to row us across to the east bank of the Ganges.

"This old man used to be a boatman, but now he has nothing to do," Mr. Yao told participants.

A boatman tells of an out-of-towner who was shot to death after a dispute with a taxi driver.

When we go back, we want to hire a boatman to row us to the Mogador Islands.

Ray had the band in Gainesville, but it didn't tour; Lawrence reconstituted a Boatmen touring outfit out of his band Right to Left, in Indianapolis.

See if you can find "A Drunken Boatman", "A Bunch of Flowers" and "Fish & Ships" in the Guardian archive.

There was even a water boatman, an insect named for the canoelike body with which it paddles about in streams or ponds — even though there was neither stream nor pond near us.