How To Use Dugout canoe In A Sentence

  • The daybed was originally a Polynesian dugout canoe, brilliantly transformed into a surreal and unlikely daybed by some strategically-placed padding and throw pillows - a perfect place for a New York heiress to take an afternoon siesta.
  • They fashioned their dugout canoes from the trunks of cedar and silk cotton trees, hollowing out the trunks first by charring, then by chipping with their stone axes and chisels.
  • The keelboat was too big to go any further, so they built themselves dugout canoes.
  • Another is travelling in a mokoro, a dugout canoe like those the explorer used to reach the falls in 1855.
  • It looks like a dugout canoe with squared ends, but is in fact a large brine storage tank, weighing over two tons.
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  • My first activity of the day was to run the Eucalyptus trail twice round as the staff canoed to work and parked their dugout canoes in the reeds.
  • The crew built two new dugout canoes. Christianity Today
  • Rowing boats and dugout canoes were milling around the steamer. Travels with Rosinante
  • Some still make their own bows and arrows and carve dugout canoes from a single tree trunk.
  • We paddled a dugout canoe across the river to the village burial ground, where the bodies of these tiny victims of the fossil fuel industry lay.
  • His home was now this village, so remote that it could be reached only by dugout canoe. Times, Sunday Times
  • Like the Tlingits, the Eyaks preferred wooden dugout canoes to the skin bidarkas of the Chugach Eskimos and the Aleuts.
  • They also built European-style luggers and skiffs, and the pirogue, based on Indian dugout canoes.
  • Rowing boats and dugout canoes were milling around the steamer. Travels with Rosinante
  • Its streets have turned into canals in which dugout canoes take the place of elegant gondolas.
  • He dreads the day he may have to fold his fishing nets for good and haul his dugout canoe from the water for the last time.
  • The crew built two new dugout canoes. Christianity Today
  • In this watery environment, the dugout canoe served the fishing and trading economies of the region, constituting the enterprise capital of its owner.
  • They also built European-style luggers and skiffs, and the pirogue, based on Indian dugout canoes.
  • Then you take a dugout canoe and dive down the river's throat, deep into the lungs of the earth. Times, Sunday Times
  • Labyrinths of shallow waterways, secret islands and lily-filled lagoons are negotiated by game drive vehicles, light aircraft and the traditional mokoro - a dugout canoe carved from the jackal-berry tree.
  • This doesn't have to be of the ‘five hours in a dugout canoe, followed by a nine-hour trek’ variety, either.
  • Sailing for 100 miles over seven days in a small dugout canoe with two local fishermen through the changeable waters of southwest Madagascar.
  • Activities on offer include day and night game drives, walks, mokoro (dugout canoe) rides and elephant-back safaris. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is thought only the dugout canoe predates the coracle as a means of water travel.
  • They also built European-style luggers and skiffs, and the pirogue, based on Indian dugout canoes.
  • Days pass in adventure, paddling in dugout canoes or hiking through the rainforest with a guide from the village who points out leaves used to poison fish, or to make a maiden love you, and roots to enlarge your manhood.
  • Delighted, Jim produced a photograph of himself as a forestry officer, 90 years later, crossing those same rivers in a dugout canoe paddled by natives and clutching his rifle.
  • The crew built two new dugout canoes. Christianity Today
  • The only way in is by dugout canoe. Times, Sunday Times
  • And he recounts harrowing journeys by dugout canoe and prau, and battles with fever and isolation - a physically and intellectually adventurous life that deserves to be better known.
  • Pablo Nuñez Perez, a Kuna who married an English girl and lived in England for seven years, paddled out in a dugout canoe (called an ulu) to welcome us.
  • In many places the straight trunks of the kapok tree are used to make dugout canoes.
  • Paddle a dugout canoe through virgin rainforest, walk the Great Wall of China or sail the Aleutian Islands.
  • The only way in is by dugout canoe. Times, Sunday Times
  • And while elsewhere the Missouri has been dammed and reservoired into submission, here it flows beautifully beneath sandstone bluffs, not so different from the river that the Corps traveled in two pirogues and six dugout canoes.
  • Rowing boats and dugout canoes were milling around the steamer. Travels with Rosinante
  • The only way in is by dugout canoe. Times, Sunday Times
  • My first activity of the day was to run the Eucalyptus trail twice round as the staff canoed to work and parked their dugout canoes in the reeds.
  • Rowing boats and dugout canoes were milling around the steamer. Travels with Rosinante
  • The afternoon light was fading, and after some negotiations with the locals, I found myself in a dugout canoe being paddled around the edge of the lake near the crater walls that disappeared into the clear depths.
  • In his swashbuckling sensibility, Jomon "eccentrics" pursuing "mysterious, quixotic dreams" made a "mad dash" across the Pacific in dugout canoes. Books: Ice Age Swashbucklers?

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