[
UK
/bˈəʊt/
]
[ US /ˈboʊt/ ]
[ US /ˈboʊt/ ]
NOUN
- a small vessel for travel on water
- a dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce
VERB
- ride in a boat on water
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.
- With their secluded anchorages and bights, Anacapa and the other Channel Islands fairly beckon sailboat skippers.
- Redwing ordered them to lower the anchor, and they got into the jolly boats and went ashore.
- This picture does not do justice to the attractiveness of all the boats and yachts that are anchored in this area.
- 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.
- In their opening and closing games England's lumbering back four were hopelessly outmanoeuvred by bursts of fast, mobile, unpredictable attacks, like tankers anchored as speedboats darted around them.
- The bow ranks were flooded; the whole front of the anchorage was a wreck of sunken boats. A Fire Upon the Deep