Sentence examples for boat picked from inspiring English sources

It was alerted after a fishing boat picked up one person off the island's eastern coast on Monday morning, and a second managed to swim to the island.

The boat rocked as if we were taking on a passenger or some freight, and then the engine kicked in again, and the boat picked up speed, and, after a few more minutes, breathing shallowly, I was released.

The animal welfare fund's first tests, conducted with hydrophones hung over the side of a boat, picked up groans that resembled lowing cows and short cracks that sounded like gunshots, both of which they determined came from the right whales.

But when the man on the large committee boat picked up the double-barreled shotgun and fired it into the air, all sailors got busy adjusting lines and setting wristwatch timers so they will hit the starting line at the exact second of the start and at full speed.

And after that a British gun boat picked us up".

A tuna fishing boat picked them up and took them to Fiji, where they were escorted into harbour by a New Zealand navy patrol and met by consular officials.

A boat picks her up after a month.

The water slapping the side of the boat picks up.

In it, Ziggy is stranded on a rooftop during a flood as a rescue boat picks up people alphabetically.

He turns it upside down and tips the phone out, thunk on the boat, picks it up and tries to start it.

We'd cruise for a couple of hours, settling in at the front of the boat, picking up our books, but really not managing more than a few sentences before looking up and being sucked in by the landscape.