How To Use Sampan In A Sentence
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I decided to take part in the single sampan contest at the sports meeting.
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And this was one gale of three in the course of those eight days in the sampan.
SMALL-BOAT SAILING
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From the depot he hurried through the quaint Japanese streets to the harbor, and hired a sampan boatman to put him aboard a certain vessel whose familiar rigging had quickly caught his eye.
The Lost Poacher
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The surf, through which it is carried in an open boat, called a sampan lonchore, renders such accidents unavoidable.
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
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Natives in three sampans paddled 10 hours without rest, towing the aircraft 25 miles downstream to the ancient city of Hue.
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The hotel bar has incredible views over the harbour, past the flotilla of sampans, junks and cargo ships, to the jumble of skyscrapers which make up the Central district of Hong Kong island.
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Simultaneously the Vietnamese pulled their sampans up onto the beach and began to unload something; he couldn't tell what, so he decided to illuminate the proceedings with a flare.
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My father was a sailor and we lived in a sampan, a house boat.
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He had to keep his eye on tankers, cargo vessels and little sampans while keeping in mind he had just four meters of water, about 13 feet, between ship bottom and riverbed.
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At dusun Si Ballowe, to which our road lay south-easterly, through pepper and rice plantations, sampans were in readiness to convey us down the river.
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants
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Her grandmother and infant aunt were making their way from their ancestral village sampan.
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If only I could package the smells of a spice market in Istanbul, the sounds of gypsy music from Prague or the sights of sampans bobbing over the waters of Hong Kong harbour, I would send them home.
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His boat the sampan on which he worked as a helper and errand-boy had been found to need repairs after sailing up the Irrawaddy from the Bay of Bengal.
Excerpt: The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
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Transportation available is taxis, buses, car rental, express boats and long boats or sampans.
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On day 12, they will go to My Tho in the Mekong Delta to visit a military snake farm before boarding the private sampan for a river cruise.
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The hotel bar has incredible views over the harbour, past the flotilla of sampans, junks and cargo ships, to the jumble of skyscrapers which make up the Central district of Hong Kong island.
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You can build your own raft out of bamboo, and punt along the Klemin river or cruise down the Pimpin rivers by sampan.
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The point is that I was in an open boat, a sampan, on a rocky coast where there were no light-houses and where the tides rip.
SMALL-BOAT SAILING
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The next day, when Alf started to go ashore, he found himself surrounded by shouting and gesticulating, though very respectful, sampan men, all extraordinarily anxious to have him for a passenger.
In Yeddo Bay
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The alternative is a ride on one of the local speedboats - usually sampans with two motors to be chartered for Rp 3 million for up to six people.
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But the sampan was already by us and wasn't stopping.
Tour of Duty
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Though hovercrafts and high-speed jetfoils have crowded out ancient sampans and junks, fishing thrives and fish remains as significant an input in the Chinese culinary tradition as before.
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And for the rest of the Annie Mine's stay in port, the sampan men refused money at Alf Davis's hand.
In Yeddo Bay
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The sampans were first replaced by big wooden boats, and later by diesel ferries.
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You'd think that a Royal Navy man would know that a sampan is not a sailing ship; it is a small boat usually propelled by two oars.
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The ferryboat is a round-bottomed, wobbly sampan, with a tiny cabin in the stern.
The Great White Tribe in Filipinia
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It's a poor fishing village where the people live in sampans and junks.
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It's a poor fishing village where the people live in sampans and junks.
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The word "sampan" literally means "three planks" in Cantonese, from the words sam (三, three) and pan (板, plank). [
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Next day when Alf is going ashore again he finds that his exploit has earned him free sampan passage: You all right.
“. . .all his race rose up before him in a mighty phantasmagoria. . .”
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Cargo ships still to this day jostle with rice barges and fragile sampans (an Oriental boat propelled by a sail or oars), whilst porters sweat in the humidity loading the boats.
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Both forces prompted the Communists to divert their sampans and other supply craft to smaller rivers and canals.
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Fishermen now use deep-sea trawlers and sophisticated fishing equipment, while sampans (small boats) ferry people between various points on the coastline along Victoria Harbour.
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He said the operators of two steel fishing vessels recently reported losses of HK $50,000 a month while the operators of two sampans said they had lost around HK $20,000.
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Imam made the remarks in response to a demand by 300 Muslim ulemas from Sampang, who agreed with the idea of repeating the election process.
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Graceful sampans, piled high with meticulous arrangements of fruit and vegetables, tables, urns and clay pots, float leisurely as they plied their merchandise.
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A dozen sampan men and boys hailed Alf and offered their services.
In Yeddo Bay
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Early in September, some 5,000 people from various areas in Sampang, protested the delay by occupying the regency office.
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However, the thriving of the foreign shipping companies greatly harmed the business of sampans, and many locals suffered bankruptcy.
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In the deep darkness of the Yuan River we were aware of other sampans near us filled with noisy passengers, and we prepared for trouble.
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Now and again we saw a worn - out sampan playing hide - and - seek with the fishes.
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They spot two sampans and chase them to a small fishing village.
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Dr. Lao-Hong felt a pang of pride for his sturdy countrymen as they deftly sculled the sampan out into the middle of the drifting fleet of waiting boats.
In The Shadow of The Cypress