Sentence examples for mere boats from inspiring English sources

There is a moment when the yachts racing in this year's America's Cup go from being mere boats to something more like flying machines.

But it was no less successful, and it led just as those two other areas did to an urban culture that resonates today.One technology it managed to develop was seaworthy ships, rather than mere boats, and Indus valley states used them to trade with their Middle Eastern neighbours.

That one's €500,000 as a mere boat; €625,000 when officially designated art.

It was chiefly used by the Egyptians, and was of various sizes, from a mere boat to a vessel adapted for long voyages (Virg. Georg. IV.289; Catull. 4; Martial, X.30.13; Cic. ad Att. I.13).

And anyway, with my experience, surely I can run a mere excursion boat for polite young adults who wish to explore the sea!

A mere 15-minute boat ride from Carrie Bow, the first reef we approach looks promising.

Le Touessrok is also a mere five-minute boat ride from another island, the Ille aux Cerfs, which means Isle of Stags.

These are mere swimmers and ferry boats.

One was Hokkien, a min-nan hua speaker from Fujian Province, the other from Hainan Island, the southernmost territory of China, almost halfway down the coast of Vietnam and a mere few days by boat across the South China Sea to Malaysia.

In one, a mass of floating lotuses spills sideways down a page; in another, a slug-shape ghost curls up under a tree; in a third, a speck of a boat, a mere flick of the brush, sits on a lake.

His book charts the navy's history from Anglo Saxon times to the present day, a mere 2,000 years of battles, boats and life at sea.