How to Use rowboat in a Sentence

rowboat

noun
  • Richard binds Iris' wrists with zip ties and places her in a rowboat.
    — Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024
  • On the shore are two sailors lugging a rowboat out of the water.
    — Vulture, 22 Apr. 2022
  • On high-water days, tourists board a rowboat ferry for the two-minute trip.
    — Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The star also spent some time by the water and shared a picture of a rowboat.
    — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 4 Jan. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Gendry returns from his rowboat exile and restarts the Baratheon line.
    — Eliza Thompson, Cosmopolitan, 13 Mar. 2017
  • Unique boats such as inboards, outboards, rowboats and canoes will be there as well.
    — Molly Korzenowski, Twin Cities, 21 June 2019
  • Four survivors, with no food or water, are adrift at sea in a rowboat in the middle of the ocean.
    — Jeryl Brunner, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
  • At the end of the property line, a dozen rowboats bobbed in the rising water.
    — Lila Battis, Travel + Leisure, 10 Aug. 2024
  • In the new, second season of this thriller series, a woman wakes up in a rowboat.
    — Gabe Cohn, New York Times, 22 May 2020
  • And like a cartoon rowboat, the league plugs one hole only to find another.
    — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 24 Feb. 2021
  • The lake has a small marina that rents rowboats and boats with electric motors.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Rothwell traversed the ocean in a 24-foot-long rowboat weighing half a ton.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 9 May 2021
  • Day-trippers dot the lake, braving chilly swims, renting rowboats, and basking in the sun.
    — Lucy Kehoe, AFAR Media, 31 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • To get in a rowboat in a winter storm at night has to take some sort of incredible bravery.
    — Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2019
  • Dozens of people, most with silver-blonde hair, board rowboats overseen by Alyn.
    — Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
  • The series was rounded out with a funny photo of the pair paddling in a rowboat.
    — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 19 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • Rent a rowboat or canoe for more leisurely exploration and the chance to see all manner of birds.
    — Smithsonian, 6 June 2017
  • Guests can use kayaks and a rowboat to explore the John Day River.
    — oregonlive, 12 June 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • As the younger children watched from the island, the rowboat capsized, and everyone drowned.
    — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • After an hour, a fisherman in a rowboat picked up the three Americans.
    — Brad Schmitt, Nashville Tennessean, 11 Nov. 2025
  • About fishing for perch and floating in a rowboat in the middle of the bay with a good book and a perpetual sunburn.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2021
  • In the little rowboat with my father and his father, my job was to take a wire clothes hanger bent into a ring, bait it and pull up the crabs.
    — Marc Myers, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2022

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