Sentence examples for skiff I from inspiring English sources

In Brendan's light flats skiff I felt every wave.

Renoir's The Skiff I remember diligently trying to copy down in my school sketchbook, and I'm still trying to work out how Henry Moore painted those stormy waves.

The engine used to turn on at the push of a button, but this summer, my boat — a wooden skiff I use for lobstering — almost sank when the bilge pump failed during a rainstorm, and I have been having electrical problems ever since.

Surprisingly, their handling characteristics most remind me of the 18-foot skiffs I used to race in Sydney Harbour; you have to be thinking ahead all the time and smooth handling delivers huge benefits.

JUSTICE The first light we see we'll land a hundred yards below it or above it, in a place where it's a good hiding-place for you and the skiff, and then I'll go and fix up some kind of a yarn, and get somebody to go for that gang and get them out of their scrape, so they can be hung when their time comes.

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.

However, I doubt seriously you or I will ever add a Skiff device to our arsenals this year or any year.

I always thought a skiff was a small boat.

Hearst hopes the consortium and Skiff will work together but people I spoke with stress that the two are separate efforts.

"I wanted to learn how to really run a trap skiff out in the North Atlantic," he said, "and I wanted to learn how to gut fish as if it were a knee-jerk reaction, so I don't have to look at the knife".

I'm goin bail the skiff".