Sentence examples for smashed boat from inspiring English sources

After Simpson was trapped under Artemis's smashed boat, sailors began wearing body armor, knives, emergency air supplies, underwater locator devices and self-lowering equipment.

"I'll never forget how we saw a smashed boat on the steep rocks of Pserimos and a little further, people trying to climb the rock," he recalls.

A day or so later, among the jetsam of loose lumber, smashed boats and pieces of people's houses, neighbors spotted the bench.

About a third of the 450 residents of Stromboli, a southwestern Italian island, fled a day after an enormous wave caused by volcanic activity smashed boats and flooded homes.

Disaster management officials and relief workers were struggling to establish contact with the islands that bore the brunt of Cyclone Pam's winds of more than 300 kph (185 mph), which destroyed homes, smashed boats and washed away roads and bridges as it struck late on Friday and into Saturday.

Others tell of thuggish naval sailors who smash boats and engines, spike fuel and break their bones.The dispute should be solvable.

I started in dinghies and I was always capsizing, hitting rocks and smashing boats – it's windy and you make mistakes so you get wet.

The great tenor bell of Bosham in West Sussex smashed the boat of the Vikings who had stolen it when it boomed out in reply to its companions in the tower: in a delightful development, the locals tried to haul it from the sea with a team of pure white oxen, but "the rope snapped and it sank once more, because one of the cattle had a single black hair in its tail".

Just then a great fluke smashed our boat.

A ferocious storm spins, tosses and smashes the boat.

"They attacked the cockpit, heavily beating on the doors and the windows and they threatened to smash the boat," el-Hiblu said.