On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Boat. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as vessel or watercraft and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Boat in a sentence
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Boat meaning
- A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind.
- A full house.
- A conveyance, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.
Synonyms of Boat
Using Boat
- The main meaning on this page is: A craft used for transportation of goods, fishing, racing, recreational cruising, or military use on or in the water, propelled by oars or outboard motor or inboard motor or by wind. | A full house. | A conveyance, utensil, or dish somewhat resembling a boat in shape.
- Useful related words include: vessel, watercraft, gravy boat, gravy holder.
- In the example corpus, boat often appears in combinations such as: the boat, boat and, boat is.
Context around Boat
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 10 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Boat
- In this selection, "boat" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 29.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, speed, guard, fishing, captain, crashed and forced stand out and add context to how "boat" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a boat captain is, a fibreglass boat that was, boat race and wooden boat. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "boat" sits close to words such as roman, adults and shots, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with boat
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
One of Blind Bay-based GT Dragon Boat Society’s boat heads. (12 words)
Boat storage, boat houses, and boat centers Lea Rowing Club, a local club on the Lea Navigation in London. (19 words)
During the raid, the commandos sank a torpedo boat, a coast guard boat, a tank landing craft, and a missile boat. (21 words)
The latter is a direct order to the helmsperson to push the tiller hard to the leeward side of the boat making the bow of the boat come up and quickly turn through the eye of the wind to prevent the boat being caught in irons. (46 words)
Basic information Rowers in a coxed eight (8+), a sweep rowing boat While rowing, the athlete sits in the boat facing toward the stern, and uses the oars which are held in place by the oarlocks to propel the boat forward (towards the bow ). (44 words)
Earlier, initiating a suo motu case in the wake of the boat tragedy, the Kerala High Court had observed that the responsibility and onus of the officials and authorities are тАЬno lesserтАЭ than that of the boat operators. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
A boat captain is presently battling for his life in a Venezuelan Hospital after a Guyana Police Force’s speed boat crashed into his balahoo (wooden speed boat) on Friday.
An Island Cove Marina resident saw the boat on fire and immediately released the boat, forced it out into the slough away from the boat slip to avoid catching the entire dock of boats on fire.
Basic information Rowers in a coxed eight (8+), a sweep rowing boat While rowing, the athlete sits in the boat facing toward the stern, and uses the oars which are held in place by the oarlocks to propel the boat forward (towards the bow ).
Boat storage, boat houses, and boat centers Lea Rowing Club, a local club on the Lea Navigation in London.
During the raid, the commandos sank a torpedo boat, a coast guard boat, a tank landing craft, and a missile boat.
Fishing vessels Commercial crab boat working in the North Sea Small sport fishing boat seeAlso A fishing vessel is a boat or ship used to catch fish in the sea, or on a lake or river.
The Coast Guard boat fleet includes: * Motor Life Boat (MLB) : The Coast Guard's convert primary heavy-weather boat used for search and rescue as well as law enforcement and homeland security.
The latter is a direct order to the helmsperson to push the tiller hard to the leeward side of the boat making the bow of the boat come up and quickly turn through the eye of the wind to prevent the boat being caught in irons.
While docked, PT boat squadrons were supported by PT boat tenders or base facilities which supplied boat crews with hot meals.
According to Police reports, the missing man, who was the lone occupant in his boat, was hit by a fibreglass boat that was powered by a 300-horsepower engine.
Coast guard spokesperson Nikos Alexiou has denied reports of survivors saying a patrol boat had tried to tow the fishing boat causing it to capsize.
Each boat has a drummer beating time to keep the paddlers in unison, and a professional helmsperson in the stern to guide the boat.
Earlier, initiating a suo motu case in the wake of the boat tragedy, the Kerala High Court had observed that the responsibility and onus of the officials and authorities are тАЬno lesserтАЭ than that of the boat operators.
Everything on the boat became covered with a coating of ice more than a foot thick in some places, and the boat began to ride dangerously low in the water.
However, the boat reached him within no time due to high levels of alertness of the men and the individual was pulled out of the water into the boat and then taken ashore.
Last year, Lawson Hall won the boat race, and the builder, Caleb Cross, a sophomore history with teaching licensure major, built the boat for this year as well.
Of the 200 or so people who boarded the boat, only 174 survived — around 26 died on the boat, or are missing at sea, presumed dead.
One of Blind Bay-based GT Dragon Boat Society’s boat heads.
On top of that, a large boat passed in front of us, almost clipping the front of my daughter’s boat.
PPA and SK ID Solutions are in the same boat on this one, but the boat begins to rock as soon as you ask why the RIA even initiated proceedings in the first place.
Phrases with boat
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with boat
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the boat 121×
- boat and 19×
- boat is 14×
- boat was 12×
- boat on 10×
- boat race 8×
- on boat 8×
- boat to 8×
- their boat 8×
- boat or 7×