skiff

How To Use skiff In A Sentence

• It was a beautiful wooden skiff, with a little outboard motor, perfect for his part-time second occupation of working a few pots to catch crustacea to sell to local pubs and restaurants.
• Appropriately, he spends most of his days on tramp steamers, skiffs and barges.
• His boat is a small skiff with a 25 hp engine, which seriously limits how many people he can take out.
• The five days needed to reach it after it first appeared on the horizon had been fraught with danger: a dozen rapids, violent eddies that whirled the Explorer around “like a teetotum,” interspersed with innumerable reaches through which the boat had to be towed by a dozen men hauling upon fraying ropes or by a battered skiff with splintered oars. Colossus
• Well, I was in this little skiffle group, you know, just me and some fellows on the street. DESPERADOES
• Bearing all that in mind, it would be a real shipwreck for an overwrought orchestrator to take the graceful skiff depicted on the cover of "Maiden Voyage" and overinflate it into a bulky ocean liner. Piano Perspectives, Visions of Vaudeville
• I don't want to be a namedropper, so I'm not going list all the terrific skiffy writers who attended. Blue Heaven 2007 Raunchy Limerick Challenge
• They also built European-style luggers and skiffs, and the pirogue, based on Indian dugout canoes.
• He hoisted a heavy, laden pack onto his back, closed up the skiff, and bore a groundsheet and heavy sleeping-bag in his arms.
• There are 160 German naval personnel in Mombasa monitoring the Horn of Africa, presumably for al-Qaeda skiffs and pirate ships.