How to Use dinghy in a Sentence

dinghy

noun
  • Get the life raft over the side, get the dinghy over the side.
    — Douglas Robertson, Peoplemag, 6 June 2024
  • The dinghy held the raft back and stopped the wind from blowing it away.
    — Douglas Robertson, Peoplemag, 6 June 2024
  • In footage filmed from a coast guard boat, the group is seen in a rubber dinghy.
    — Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2017
  • With all hope just about lost, the ship spots them and sends two sailors in a dinghy to scoop them up.
    — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The coast guard then pulls in the dinghy and transfers the migrants to its boat.
    — Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2017
  • Tanya dies by falling over the side of the yacht and hitting her head on the dinghy.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 12 Dec. 2022
  • But there’s always a chance that the dinghy takes the bow of an oil tanker broadside.
    — Mark Yost, WSJ, 4 May 2018
  • Her husband has maintained that his wife fell from a dinghy at night and was swept away.
    — Kelsie Cairns , Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 2 June 2026
  • Waves of anxiety knocked me about like a dinghy in a typhoon.
    — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Five crew members sleeping on the top deck jumped off and took a dinghy to safety.
    — USA Today, 4 Sep. 2019
  • Five crew members sleeping on the top deck jumped off and took a dinghy to safety.
    — Stefanie Dazio, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • She had been forced to escape to the water with her two children in a tiny dinghy.
    — Annette Lin, The New Republic, 13 Jan. 2020
  • There is also a garage aft near the sunbed that can house water toys, gear and even a small dinghy.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 12 Dec. 2022
  • There was a pair of chatty fish, too, and a hapless couple in a tiny dinghy.
    — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 5 July 2018
  • Why does Tanya choose to jump instead of walking down the stairs to the dinghy?
    — Dallas News, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The staff will pick you up in a small dinghy from the beach near Maykana and whisk you off to the yacht.
    — Joni Sweet, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Must be that a robber flung it overboard from his dinghy and then hid it beneath the rocks.
    — Okwiri Oduor, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
  • The four people on board were adrift in a life raft and dinghy with a satellite phone and some supplies.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2023
  • In the middle of the Aegean Sea, the motor of the dinghy cut out.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Over a three-week span in August, dozens of small boats and dinghies were stolen, stripped for parts and sunk.
    — Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2024
  • When Catherine opens her eyes, Nicky and the dinghy are far offshore.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2024
  • All of the boys had made the dangerous journey by dinghy from the Libyan coast.
    — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2017
  • People on the beach grabbed a nearby dinghy and tried to row out to her but were caught in the strong current.
    — Iliana Magra, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2020
  • The drugs were thought to have been brought over by dinghy from Anzio on the mainland, police said.
    — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 24 June 2026
  • The crew climbed into a dinghy and motored to a yacht anchored nearby to call again for help.
    — Fox News, 2 Dec. 2020
  • That and being on a dinghy in a red bathing suit with Colin Firth next to you.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 11 July 2021
  • The dinghy was then lifted 40 feet in the air by a boom and swung onto the island.
    — Bill Van Niekerken, SFChronicle.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • One of these dozen pictures shows a chubby, balding man, shirtless, in a small dinghy.
    — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 14 May 2026
  • The next morning, Wood's body was found a mile from the yacht and the dinghy was found beached, police have said.
    — Andrew Blankstein, NBC News, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Natalie was in the master cabin and heard the dinghy banging against the side.
    — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2018

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