How to Use rowboat in a Sentence

rowboat

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  • The Coast Guard took the rowers back to the school and a third boat from the school got the capsized rowboat.
    — Kaylee Remington, cleveland.com, 17 June 2017
  • The players should be paid, and the NCAA should be sent out to sea in a rowboat with no oars.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2018
  • On the shore are two sailors lugging a rowboat out of the water.
    — Vulture, 22 Apr. 2022
  • The story doesn’t twist and turn so much as squirm and jump like an eel in the bottom of a rowboat.
    — Mark Olsen, latimes.com, 13 Aug. 2017
  • The star also spent some time by the water and shared a picture of a rowboat.
    — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Guests can use kayaks and a rowboat to explore the John Day River.
    — oregonlive, 12 June 2020
  • At the entrance, a little rowboat sits in a tiny pond in front of the Crystal Lake boathouse.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Gendry returns from his rowboat exile and restarts the Baratheon line.
    — Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 13 Mar. 2017
  • The chairman was then overtaken and set adrift in a rowboat, to the taunts and jeers of the other board members.
    — Jack Handey, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021
  • The pair launched a wooden rowboat at about 2 a.m. and within 30 minutes could be heard yelling for help, the Coast Guard has said.
    — Zaz Hollander, Alaska Dispatch News, 22 June 2017
  • To get to the Lower Falls, four miles downstream, rent a rowboat from the park’s concession stand.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Rothwell traversed the ocean in a 24-foot-long rowboat weighing half a ton.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 9 May 2021
  • Guests can watch movies from their kayak, rowboat or pedal boat, all of which are available to rent.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 3 June 2022
  • Or to help conjure the sound and visual effects for a woman in a rowboat reaching for the moon.
    — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 19 June 2017
  • In the new, second season of this thriller series, a woman wakes up in a rowboat.
    — Gabe Cohn, New York Times, 22 May 2020
  • Over his shoulder, a mama brown bear and two cubs were walking on the edge of the lake about 20 feet away from our small rowboat.
    — Ellen Scolnic, Philly.com, 29 Sep. 2017
  • To reach the Lower Falls, four miles downstream, rent a rowboat from the park’s concession stand.
    — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 May 2022
  • The series was rounded out with a funny photo of the pair paddling in a rowboat.
    — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The entrance is less than a meter high, just enough for a small rowboat and its prone passengers to glide through.
    — Rob Hodgetts and Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 2 June 2017
  • Rates start at $27 for a rowboat or single-person kayak.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 20 Aug. 2020
  • As the younger children watched from the island, the rowboat capsized, and everyone drowned.
    — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Their 29-foot rowboat, named the Ohana, had to be in constant motion to avoid capsizing.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Dec. 2019
  • And like a cartoon rowboat, the league plugs one hole only to find another.
    — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Friday: Take out a rowboat for free in Van Cortlandt Park any time between 4:30 and 7 p.m.
    — Max Falkowitz, New York Times, 17 July 2019
  • Police borrowed a rowboat from a resident to reach the area near the center of the lake where Allard was last seen.
    — Clifford Ward, chicagotribune.com, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The lake has a small marina that rents rowboats and boats with electric motors.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Authorities borrowed a rowboat from a resident to reach the area near the center of the lake where the man was last seen.
    — Clifford Ward, chicagotribune.com, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Rent a rowboat or canoe for more leisurely exploration and the chance to see all manner of birds.
    — Smithsonian, 6 June 2017
  • Rent a rowboat or canoe for more leisurely exploration and the chance to see all manner of birds.
    — Smithsonian, 6 June 2017
  • On his second morning there, Spector notices a rowboat in the middle of the estate’s frozen lake.
    — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 18 July 2024

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