Sentence examples for ancient boat from inspiring English sources

A number of ancient boat types have survived into the present.

An ancient boat navigates a vast sea; a toy car (or is it real?) looms forebodingly from a dark, miasmic haze; the tiny figure of a hiker negotiates a forbidding mountain terrain.

And the bitumen that ancient boat builders heated to seal and waterproof ships has been linked to lung cancer as well as tumors in the respiratory and digestive tracts.

Queen's Baton Relay presenter Mark Beaumont takes to the seas on a traditional sailing boat called a Waka to discover how Polynesian ancestors were able to navigate the Pacific islands and how ancient boat building techniques have inspired modern high-tech racing crafts.

But then, over the next several years, some very clever, younger members of the tribe, basically came up with the idea, "Well, what if we attach tow rope from a motor boat to one of the ancient rowing-only boats, and then use that to drag the big, ancient boat close to the whale, and then we'll untie it.

We only have ancient boats, which use a lot of diesel.

There will be ancient boats and modern boats, rowing boats and sailing boats, steam boats and motorised boats, musical boats and boats spouting geysers.

Beginning at his dining-room table manipulating pieces of wood, he thought of new ways to reconstruct ancient boats and ships in three dimensions.

Only the ancient boats are going to be able to attack the whales.

When the fountain was planned in the early 1600s by Bernini (believed to be Pietro, though some have attributed the work to his son, Gian Lorenzo), there was insufficient water pressure for spouting jets, so the shape of the Barcaccia was conceived: an ancient marble boat foundering endearingly in its marble bath.

Moss was used to caulk the Viking boats, while animal hair and textile materials were used in ancient Mediterranean boats.