How to Use scow in a Sentence

scow

noun
  • The two men opened the bottom of the scow to flood it and slow it down.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 7 Nov. 2019
  • The family friends promised to help Wade find work at a seafood processing plant or on a fish-buying scow.
    — Bjorn Dihle, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The crafts are destroyed on impact and handily fished out by attending boaters who drag it to a waiting garbage scow.
    — Deanna Weniger, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2019
  • Severe rain and wind has managed to move a massive iron scow that has been stuck on a rocky perch near Niagara Falls since 1918.
    — Doha Madani, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2019
  • That material will then be suctioned up along with seawater and loaded onto large barges, known as scows, which carry a slurry of sediment, rocks and debris.
    — Teresa Tomassoni, Sun Sentinel, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The commission extensively documented it last year to mark the 100th anniversary of the rescue and grounding of the scow.
    — Joel Shannon, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2019
  • Conveniently, Peter, a veteran racer with the Twin Cities club, already had crewing an A-scow on his bucket list.
    — Simon Peter Groebner, chicagotribune.com, 6 June 2018
  • Over a century ago, the 80-foot-long scow was dredging for a tugboat along the Niagara River, upstream from Niagara Falls.
    — Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2019
  • That number is a long way from the heyday of San Francisco’s working waterfront, when the Mission Creek channel was crowded with lumber schooners, hay scows and ocean-going sailing vessels.
    — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Jan. 2018
  • In a startling revelation, the crew members aboard this intergalactic garbage scow turn out to be the descendants of American astronauts launched 200 years earlier during humanity's pre-warp, post-World War III days.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 20 Aug. 2025

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