Sentence examples for boat rocking from inspiring English sources

A small argument stirs the waters a bit and gets the boat rocking.

What a revelation when Van Gogh imagines his canvas of Madame Roulin propped in a boat, rocking "even Icelandic fishermen" to easeful sleep: the portrait as melodious lullaby.

With local pressures to meet benchmarks or AYP, principals may not want us to stir the proverbial pot with our crazy boat rocking.

I began feeling a bit woozy, as though I was on a boat rocking back and forth.

While flag officers seldom witness wrongdoing and field-grade officers tend to shy from mid-career boat rocking, junior officers are subject to neither of those constraints.

The key players who shaped a "good week for Fifa": Sepp Blatter: Promised delegates in Zurich on Friday that he'll deliver a "turning point" to "stop the boat rocking and glide it placidly into port" – building on the turning point he promised after his unopposed win in 2011.

The boat rocked.

The chickens clucked, the boat rocked.

This was deliberate silence, in case the boat rocked.

As the boat rocked over the waves, I tried fishing from the side.

Roy, you see, did not like having his boat rocked in any way.