Sentence examples for it a skiff from inspiring English sources

Bourque called it a skiff.

It was a Coleman Scanoe — a skiff canoe, fourteen feet long and with a wider than usual thirty-eight-inch beam.

A3 Cole Inquiry Finds Lapses A Navy investigation found that the captain and crew of the destroyer did not follow strict security procedures before a skiff packed with explosives attacked it in Yemen.

A Navy inquiry has found that the captain and crew of the American destroyer Cole failed to follow strict security procedures before a skiff packed with explosives attacked it in Yemen in October, killing 17 sailors, senior officials said today.

Here's one I heard rather than read: skiff, as in the sentence "Is there a skiff where we can talk?" At first, I thought it was a small boat, the word skiff derived from the Germanic schif, akin to ship.

"Anything you are successful in you take a certain amount of pride with it," Mr. Scheffer (pronounced SKEFF-er) said, as he tended his crop from a skiff in Katama Bay.

They concluded that none of the required measures would, even in hindsight, have stopped two suicide bombers from steering a skiff packed with explosives to the side of the Cole and detonating it, the officials said.

The Court & Personal column on page 7 reported the King's holiday in Corfu - it did not name his companions but said he enjoyed bathing and rowing about the harbour in a skiff.

A skiff rides on Kent's stern.

I always thought a skiff was a small boat.

A skiff went in and picked up the men.