How To Use Flat-bottomed In A Sentence
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She set out from Manila in a small casco, or flat-bottomed native boat, heavily laden with fresh fish, pine-apples, mangoes, bananas, tobacco and cigarettes -- all intended for the Spanish garrison on Corregidor
The Woman with a Stone Heart A Romance of the Philippine War
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From Hampi, round, flat-bottomed boats called coracles ferry people across the river to a rocky jetty, but that is only the beginning of the trip to the Anjanadri temple.
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These anaglyphs of Nirgal Valles and Maja Valles make it perfectly clear we're seeing deep flat-bottomed canyons with dune systems of some sort.
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Develop/wash in a flat-bottomed tray containing water with a dash of washing-up liquid added.
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Over on the river, flat-bottomed barges being loaded with cargo and refugees headed off down the river.
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These were flat-bottomed craft with a shallow draft, and were lowered from the davits of larger troop-carrying merchantmen, like lifeboats.
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The sky to-day is windrowed with flat-bottomed cumulus-clouds, tier beyond tier above a level plane of light, marking off the infinite distance like receding mile-stones on
The Prairie Child
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The coble, so called because it was clinker-built in the manner of a Scotch fishing dinghy, very flat-bottomed, glided across the reef without grazing itself and stroked the mere 150 yards across the lagoon to the straight beach, where some of the surviving members of the community stood waiting: six women, one—the oldest—big with child, and five men whose ages, if their faces reflected their years, varied between shaveling young and grizzled old.
Morgan’s Run
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Thirty yards or so, just before the creek entered the tarn, a flat-bottomed boat was moored.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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We use the flat-bottomed airboat to get across the boom and close to the oiled marshes.
Times, Sunday Times
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These were flat-bottomed craft with a shallow draft, and were lowered from the davits of larger troop-carrying merchantmen, like lifeboats.
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There is a channel from east to west, which was built by the Vikings so that they could drag their flat-bottomed boats over the island instead of sailing around.
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We're not talking sea-going yacht or racing catamaran here, just a simple flat-bottomed boat to get a closer look at the reef and marine life.
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Flat-bottomed crossings are often installed to ensure that factors like the natural stream gradient and bed roughness allow fish passage.
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The coble, so called because it was clinker-built in the manner of a Scotch fishing dinghy, very flat-bottomed, glided across the reef without grazing itself and stroked the mere 150 yards across the lagoon to the straight beach, where some of the surviving members of the community stood waiting: six women, one—the oldest—big with child, and five men whose ages, if their faces reflected their years, varied between shaveling young and grizzled old.
Morgan’s Run
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Such lighters, usually flat-bottomed barges, were used in lightening or loading and unloading vessels that could not be wharfed, or where harbour facilities were underdeveloped or too small.
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We sent up our luggage and servants by a caique, a long, narrow, flat-bottomed boat, rowed by sculls.
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A flat-bottomed vessel developed during World War II to land troops and cargo on open beaches and sometimes used as a weapons platform and hospital ship.
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The distinctive flat-bottomed boats once used to transport the wine are still moored in the river, though today, more prosaically, the wine is brought down by road in stainless - steel tankers.
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With a flat-bottomed boat you should be able to surf as well sideways (called a grind) as you do frontwards or backwards.
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The distinctive flat-bottomed boats once used to transport the wine are still moored in the river, though today, more prosaically, the wine is brought down by road in stainless - steel tankers.
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It was a flat-bottomed boat, wreathed in mist from a small overnight storm.
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He pointed to a small, flat-bottomed panga moored at the dock.
MINUTES TO BURN
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His ocean survival unit holds 12 people and has a curved underwater fibreglass section that should stop high waves and wind upending the craft, unlike traditional flat-bottomed inflatables.
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His ocean survival unit holds 12 people and has a curved underwater fibreglass section that should stop high waves and wind upending the craft, unlike traditional flat-bottomed inflatables.
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Inventing a disaster management plan on the spot, Bahlman, Campagna and others borrowed a flat-bottomed aluminum motorboat from a nearby homeowner and rode through the brown floodwaters to the skeletal white house, whose walls consist of huge sheets of floor-to-ceiling glass.
August 2007
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In watercraft delivery, cases of MREs are loaded onto lighters, flat-bottomed boats, or barges and transported from port to port.
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We had here to exchange our bongo for a flat-bottomed boat called a champan, with which alone the upper part of the river can, from its numerous shallows, be navigated.
The Young Llanero A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela
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These were flat-bottomed craft with a shallow draft, and were lowered from the davits of larger troop-carrying merchantmen, like lifeboats.
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The Model 76 flat-bottomed receiver with integral recoil lug is time consuming to machine while maintaining concentricity.
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The coble, so called because it was clinker-built in the manner of a Scotch fishing dinghy, very flat-bottomed, glided across the reef without grazing itself and stroked the mere 150 yards across the lagoon to the straight beach, where some of the surviving members of the community stood waiting: six women, one—the oldest—big with child, and five men whose ages, if their faces reflected their years, varied between shaveling young and grizzled old.
Morgan’s Run
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The vessels forming the flotilla consisted of praams, ship-rigged, and brigs carrying one or two eighteen or twenty-four pounders, and the largest a thirty-two pounder (with sixty or ninety men), all of them flat-bottomed.
A Sailor of King George
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A pair of deep, flat-bottomed holes have been chiseled out of the red clay of eastern Georgia in the U.S., like twin sports arenas from the pre-Columbian era.
Southern Co's Nuclear Gambit
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Heat a nonstick or well-seasoned flat-bottomed frying pan over a medium-low flame.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the far side of the dinghy was a flat-bottomed marsh punt, an outboard motor at its stern.
THE KEYS OF HELL
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The ore was usually found in water less than twelve feet deep and was raised by men in large, flat-bottomed boats wielding drags, rakes, or heavy, powerful tongs similar to oystering tongs.
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Next day I join a flat-bottomed boat that cruises the Yellow Waters wetlands.
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Pilot a flat-bottomed boat down the Fall River, famous for its 18-inch rainbows.
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Yes," said he, "when I was a young man I used to go to Battersea on holidays, I and some others, and nothing would suit us but outrigged gigs, randans, and such like; but now I'm growing old, and a flat-bottomed tub suits us better, my missus and me.
Littlebourne Lock
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The special envoys of the King of the Belgians, invited to a lunch at the Foreign Office, were carried there in a large, flat-bottomed boat poled by a couple of watermen.
The Paris Flood of 1910 | Edwardian Promenade
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We're not talking sea-going yacht or racing catamaran here, just a simple flat-bottomed boat to get a closer look at the reef and marine life.
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The 88-year-old coble, a flat-bottomed fishing boat, had survived a direct hit by a stick bomb in 1943, which went right through her hull.
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By nine o'clock we were floating on the river in a small, flat-bottomed boat with a small motor.
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These were flat-bottomed craft with a shallow draft, and were lowered from the davits of larger troop-carrying merchantmen, like lifeboats.
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Philopator was properly built, with a kelson, and bilges, and a flat-bottomed hull.
Antony and Cleopatra
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Various paddle-powered rigs with exceptional mobility include small flat-bottomed aluminum boats, canoes and kayaks.
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His little riverboat, the flat-bottomed, open-sided Water Rat, is nestled in the reeds alongside Toolunka Island on the Murray River, while a campfire is blazing brightly and the billy is boiling.
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THE MONITOR is a long, wide, and flat-bottomed vessel, with vertical sides and pointed ends, requiring but a very shallow depth of water to float in, though heavily loaded with impregnable armour on her sides and a bombproof deck, on which is placed a shotproof revolving turret, which contains two very heavy guns.
The American Iron-Clad Vessels
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The tarpon fishing was carried out in flat-bottomed punts called jon boats.
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The ridges of Ecoregion 70f are forested while its floodplains and broad, clay-filled, flat-bottomed, preglacial valleys are used for general farms.
Ecoregions of Indiana and Ohio (EPA)
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The rowing contingent went first, led by four venerable Banks dories, the traditional high-ended, flat-bottomed boats emblematic of Yankee seafaring.
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a flat-bottomed boat
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About three feet long, blade broad on top and not tapering much to a bluntish point, it had a short, straight iron guard and a wide, flat-bottomed pommel rounded like a scoop of ice cream.
Operation Luna
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The distinctive flat-bottomed boats once used to transport the wine are still moored in the river, though today, more prosaically, the wine is brought down by road in stainless - steel tankers.
