Sentence examples for skiff like from inspiring English sources

But there was also something else widely found in Aden since the bombing -- a halting, half-expressed sense of astonishment, sometimes of satisfaction and even pleasure, that a mighty power, the United States, should have had its Navy humbled by two Arab men in a motorized skiff like a houri.

The list of smaller e-reader players experiencing problems is growing longer, like Skiff, iRex and Plastic Logic.

Endless moped-like skiffs.

"Never be afraid to dream," she tweeted to her followers, but I had already unfollowed, like a skiff breaking from its moorings.

Think of the Skiff, then, as something like a Roku box for magazines.

As we've written in the past, Skiff is sort of like a Roku box for magazines.

The Roku box, like the Skiff, is a proof of concept and a device for early adopters.

Standouts like the Skiff and Que will remain, but the majority will be left behind by the rapid advances in e-ink and miniaturization which have already made Kindles obsolete.

We zipped down the boulevard between cars and buses, our handlebars close enough to knock off mirrors, crossing four lanes of traffic and to the other side of the campus, like a skiff skimming ocean waves.

Several big-ticket items, like Caroline's skiff, are built for two.

Traversing Iowa on Route 30 or Michigan on Route 12 felt quite comfortable, like taking a skiff across slightly choppy waters.