Sentence examples for skiff waiting from inspiring English sources

I stood on the bow of the skiff, waiting for the fish to break water within range, aware of the rain beating a tattoo on the shoulders of my jacket.

Two aluminum skiffs are waiting, rafted together.

There he and a handful of other men would step into waiting skiffs and motor out to the town's meatpacking house.

Two weeks later, the operation got under way when the first skiff safely carried about a hundred refugees out to the waiting ship.

Whether crouched in the mangroves of the Yucatán waiting for agile green-winged teal to whip past, lying on my back in a jouncing, anchored skiff on Long Island Sound watching a flock of bluebills laboring upwind toward me low over the waves, or huddled in sparse cover on the vast, tidal flats of James Bay, Ontario, in quest of snow geese, I have pursued waterfowl in many places.

Abdi, who learned to swim, shoot, and steer a skiff, now finds himself in a predicament similar to Muse's at the time of the film's action: having improbably boarded the ship, he realizes that his grasp on power is tenuous, and he is still waiting for a payday.

Waiting, waiting, and waiting.

Yesterday I encountered Captain Ahab as he waited for his skiff to carry him away.

From there we set off in the skiff for the five-mile run to Espiritu Santo Island, where the kayaks waited.

Bourque called it a skiff.

One MH-60 helicopter approached the skiff.