Sentence examples for steer a skiff from inspiring English sources

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.

Raban's already substantial reputation rested on a series of books that found shelf-room in bookshops' Travel sections, and were united by their fascination with water: he steered a skiff through the rich soup of the Mississippi in Old Glory, sailed solo around Britain in Coasting, crossed the Atlantic in a container ship in Hunting Mister Heartbreak, and in Bad Land, prayed for rain.

Endorsing the findings of a long Navy report, Mr. Cohen said senior civilian and military leaders had failed to identify shortcomings in security that allowed two men to steer a harbor skiff packed with explosives alongside the Cole on Oct. 12and detonate it, killing 17 sailors.

The two retired commanders who led the commission, Gen. William W. Crouch of the Army and Adm. Harold W. Gehman of the Navy, emphasized that they had not set out to assign blame for any lapses or oversights that allowed two suicide bombers to steer a harbor skiff packed with explosives up to the Cole.

"I'd say, 'We've been doing it since the day the settlers first showed up,' " Mr. Choke said as he steered an aluminum skiff out of Shilshole Bay on an overcast afternoon recently.

Bourque called it a skiff.

A skiff rides on Kent's stern.

I always thought a skiff was a small boat.

A skiff went in and picked up the men.

The fishing vessel was about 30 miles away and carried a skiff identical to the pirate's skiff on the dhow's deck.

This month, the Skiff e-reading platform, developed by Hearst, was acquired by the News Corporation, casting doubts on the planned introduction of a Skiff reading device.