Sentence examples for a common boat from inspiring English sources

"There's a dock with a common boat so you can row out to your mooring, a diving board on rocks, a raft, a water sports day where all the cove kids compete for a war bonnet in things like a 15-foot swimming race where you carry a spoon in your mouth with a peanut and to win, you must have the peanut on the spoon when you cross the finish line".

"Well, we are in a common boat," Clinton continued.

It's all because the original name given by the French fishermen who for hundreds of years frequented the area was L'Anse à la Médée, Medea's Cove, Medea being quite a common boat name.

In particular, some Chinese young people whom I interviewed liked Secretary Clinton's use of an ancient Chinese aphorism to propose that China and the United States are "in a common boat," an idea which "must continue to guide us today".

"I have often quoted a Chinese proverb which says that when you are in a common boat, you have to cross the river peacefully together," Secretary of State Clinton told the gathering of climate delegates in Copenhagen three years ago -- words that advocates reminded her of in this week's letter.

They all practiced to perfection the art of mutual extermination, although without realizing that it was rocking the common boat... which even so was just barely afloat".

This is the best way to allow China and the United States to remain in the "common boat" that Secretary Clinton described--not only "today," but also tomorrow.

Wood and other common boat-building materials don't preserve well in the archaeological record.

Australia is a common destination for boats carrying asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Iraq, Sri Lanka and other poor- or war-ravaged countries.

After every group of six town houses, there will be access points from the road through a common area to the boat slips.

Outlets are calling the vessel a "ghost ship," a common term for an unmanned boat, or a boat with bodies on board.