Sentence examples for skiff a from inspiring English sources

We boarded Leach's skiff, a flat-bottomed vessel propelled by a feeble outboard.

Skiff, a start-up spun out of Hearst, is a rare exception to this rule.

Interspersed are actual boats — a flat-bottom fishing skiff, a couple of rowing boats, six handcrafted kayaks and a 16-foot melonseed catboat, its single gaff-rigged sail unfurled.

The club, which has about 65 members, has one boat in use, and members gather once a week to build a 13-foot Martin Skiff a circa-1900 model) with help from Robert Pittaway, a naval architect in Stonington.

The D.C.I. also gets drivers and bodyguards, a live-in security staff to protect his home, even a fully protected and equipped Special Compartmented Intelligence Facility, or SCIF (pronounced "skiff"), a room sealed and secured according to detailed regulations.

On the other hand, the Butthead skiff, a punt with two blunt ends, was the sort of craft I would imagine being in the watery version of bumper cars.

They had a ski boat, a skiff and a canoe plus fuel, food, water and an app, HoustonHarvey Rescuecom, which pinpointed people in need.com

European naval forces were today monitoring a yacht seen towing a skiff - a small boat used by pirates - near to the Somali port of Haradheere but were unable to confirm if it was the Chandlers'.

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I always thought a skiff was a small boat.

SPRINGING In a skiff on a sunrisen lake we are watchers.