Sentence examples for skiff at from inspiring English sources

We had picked up a rental houseboat and an outboard skiff at Paradise Point Marina and spent the night on the boat listening to flocks of geese, cranes and ducks honking and chattering overhead.

He was leading at the end of the opening eight races on Thursday while the second boat, Oman Air, is now in the hands of Stevie Morrison, who represented Britain in the high performance 49er skiff at the Olympics in both 2008 and 2012.

Dartmouth keeps an aluminum skiff at Hellgate Pond for anglers, and when Ruth and I hiked up the trail to the pond on an unseasonably warm afternoon, my pack's contents included 20 feet of light rope for an anchor line and a nylon mesh bag.

Visit Skiff at www.Skiff.com.

As the Empire collapsed apace, he'd had an adulterous affair with the young wife of a multi-wifed effendi, chiefly by trysting with her in a covered skiff at night on the Bosphorus under starlight.

The minor planet 4147 Lennon, discovered 12 January 1983 by B. A. Skiff at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory, was named in memory of Lennon.

Even more escalation (pirates began with AK47s; now every skiff has at least one RPG).

JUCARO, Cuba — I stood on the bow of a Dolphin skiff anchored at the edge of a large channel in Jardines de la Reina.

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.

They use hijacked tuna-fishing boats or local dhows as the mother ship, then launch attacks from skiffs, usually at dawn or dusk.

Pirates in two skiffs fired at the Hong Kong-flagged BW Lion about 1,000 nautical miles east of the Somali coast, the European Union Naval Force said.