Sentence examples for their skiff from inspiring English sources

But their skiff sits idle in the backyard now.

He said that he had been fishing on a pier when the bombers placed their skiff in the water.

WHEN pirates attacked the MV Kition, a Greek tanker, late at night in the Gulf of Aden on May 1st, a Portuguese helicopter scared off the assailants and tracked their skiff to its "mother ship".

The suspect, in his account, said the two suicide bombers aborted the attack when their skiff began to sink, apparently because it was overloaded with explosives, the officials said.

Not far off, baymen, in their skiffs, raked for clams, then tied up for lunch, erecting umbrellas and tarps for protection against the sun.

After Western nations began positioning naval vessels outside key harbors, the pirates simply tied their skiffs to the backs of 44s and set sail from remote beaches.

Small children swim in the polluted estuary here, fishermen take their skiffs out ever farther — "There's nothing we can catch here," said Pius Doron, perched anxiously over his boat — and market women trudge through oily streams.

Rats, the sole occupants of one rocky islet, are so ravenous that seasonal fishermen sleep in their skiffs, afraid to languish ashore.Yet Socotra, whose main island is the size of Majorca or Long Island, is one of the world's last enchanted places.

In 1839, John and Henry Thoreau passed the site in their homemade skiff on the journey that resulted in Henry's first book.

The Danish team of Jason Warrer and Martin Kirketerp Ibsen were listed as winning gold in initial results that were not immediately confirmed; they sailed in a borrowed boat after tough conditions snapped the mast on their own skiff before the start.

After their 19ft skiff was tossed in the sea following a storm the men swam to the long deserted Fanadik in the south Pacific (which is where the island in Lost is located).