Sentence examples for of the skiff from inspiring English sources

It reminded him of the skiff he built one winter, from a kit.

Sometimes he pulls out as many as 80 in a couple of hours, and the floor of the skiff crawls with them.

Jack follows him and watches him put his bucket and rod into the bottom of the skiff, along with some bottles of water and a small pot of goat stew.

For Captain Younes, his crew members following orders without gunmen to interfere, the splashing of the skiff onto the surface of the Gulf of Oman signified a moment he had not known would come.

I stood on the bow of the skiff, waiting for the fish to break water within range, aware of the rain beating a tattoo on the shoulders of my jacket.

The officer who had gone to attend to the rowboat returned after an explosion had sounded from the woods, and reported that, to his surprise, the hand grenade had blown only a six-inch hole in the bottom of the skiff.

The incident occurred April 10 in the Gulf of Aden, when a skiff approached the Ashland and, according to the government's case, someone on the skiff fired a shot at the ship.

A French warship, the Lafayette, was sent to the position, the force said, and as one of the skiffs tried to flee, a French sniper disabled its engines with rifle fire.

On Thursday, six of the pirates rode off in one of the skiffs with rifles and their sole rocket-propelled grenade launcher to look for a ship to seize.

He hurled a chain that splashed into the water a couple of inches from the skiff's twin outboard motors.

The temperature is pleasant, mild now at around 5 p.m., the air thick but stirred by breezes (especially, of course, when the skiff is open-throttle) and rich with passing scents: spawning fish, loamy earth, the occasional whiff of floral perfume.