Sentence examples for skiff against from inspiring English sources

He longed to get to his own "source" as he longed to reach the hidden spring of rivers, clambering up Swiss waterfalls or battling, in his little green-and-white skiff, against the torrent of the Arno in Pisa.

But on Oct. 6, a small boat apparently rammed the Limburg, a French tanker, near the southern port of Mukalla, an attack similar to that by a kamikaze skiff against the Cole.

The Bayan was almost out of fuel, rendering it useless as a mother ship from which the pirates could mount attacks in skiffs against passing ships they hoped to hold for multimillion-dollar ransoms.

It's an innocuous sight: blue wooden skiffs knocking against each other in the breeze.

Seventeen American sailors were killed when a skiff loaded with explosives detonated against the side of the Cole on Oct. 12.

Without Simon to man the oars against the current, the skiff would drift, and the crowd would not be able to hear him, and without Jesus' Good News, Simon would be spiritually adrift.

Along the coast, waves up to 5 m damaged marinas in Dzaoudzi, Hagnoundrou, and Mamoudzou where skiffs were smashed against rocks or stranded.

QINGDAO, China (AP) — Three protests have been lodged against the result of Sunday's 49er skiff Olympic sailing medal race.

Bourque called it a skiff.

Deucalion wafting, moor'd his little skiff.

One MH-60 helicopter approached the skiff.