Sentence examples for boat playing from inspiring English sources

They also organised annual conferences and were hosts to many visitors from abroad, with the canal boat playing a full role in the general hospitality.

We are relaxing after our Thistlegorm dive and a pair of bottlenose dolphins swim alongside the boat, playing in its lights.

Rich and single, he has pursued a life of leisure since then — sailing in his 37-foot boat, playing jazz trombone and, at the moment, taking a week to learn how to fly Russian fighter jets and gliders in New Mexico.

With that, a trio of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins skipped across the waves toward our boat, playing hide and seek in the wake as we sped through the blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

We ran around that boat playing ping pong, going to the movie screenings and even dating two brothers (12-year-old dating, which is to say we called it dating but all we did was talk about how we liked them and they liked us and play ping pong against them).

As she stood on the deck of the very same ferryboat I had sailed on during a childhood field trip, as I watched her take it all in -- waving to the people parasailing on the lake, eyes twinkling as she listened to the boat playing cheerful tunes on its calliope, face upturned to the sunshine -- it hit me.

When they played a note, the boat played it back.

Towards the end of the war that Pyke's boat played no part in, Ezra Pound was incarcerated in an American army detention centre near Pisa, where he wrote what was to be his most successful book, The Pisan Cantos.

Former President George Bush was a Texas transplant who vacationed at his family's estate in Kennebunkport, Me., where he sped around in a cigarette boat, played golf at an aerobic pace, tossed horseshoes and entertained an endless parade of guests.

And yet the poems that frame his Rimbaud show how deeply the sustained technical achievement - and delight in an imagery of extremity - that characterise "The Drunken Boat" play their part in Jenkins's own verse.

Meanwhile, a herd of 50 wild elephants crossing a river in front of our boat played out like it were the most ordinary thing in the world.