[ UK /bˈə‍ʊt/ ]
[ US /ˈboʊt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a small vessel for travel on water
  2. a dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce
VERB
  1. ride in a boat on water
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How To Use boat In A Sentence

  • Back on the boat and heading to shore, we spotted a spout, a fin and then the flukes of a humpback whale.
  • We paddled a little boat in the West Lake.
  • It was a bit like the rowing boat trying to make headway against the flow of the river near the weir.
  • Two workboats, ancient battered things with rusting plates, shouldered into it from either side like a couple of drunks supporting a comatose companion.
  • They are weird stubby boats, and you have to do a lot more work to propel and keep them on a straight course through the water.
  • At least five people were killed when an overcrowded migrant boat capsized last month which was dramatically caught on camera by Italian coastguards. The Sun
  • The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and the one with the longest history. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated by boat races in the shape of dragons. Competing teams row their boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first.
  • Avoiding tripping over the lines on deck, you then have to quant your boat through the bridge. Times, Sunday Times
  • Twice through the following night was I wakened by the boat being hurled upon her beam-ends by the blows of the seas; but she righted easily, and took scarce any water, the canvas proving a very roof of safety. The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'
  • To struggle in sweat pooled rivers, will cause the boat to the other side of the ideal sail.
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