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Recent Examples of pirogue
As the team began to pull up its fishing nets, the pirogue pitched sharply.
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Jack Thompson,
The Christian Science Monitor,
4 June 2024
Artists hung paintings from trees, converted the walls of stores and restaurants into galleries, and filled some of Dakar’s run-down architectural gems with installations — piles of rubble, pieces of pirogue boats, a tennis court.
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Ruth MacLean,
New York Times,
30 May 2024
Spanish migration advocacy group Walking Borders said the migrants' pirogue, a large fishing boat, left the seaside town of Fass Boye on July 10.
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Harold Maass,
The Week,
18 Aug. 2023
The Spanish migration advocacy group Walking Borders said the vessel was a large fishing boat, called a pirogue, which had left Senegal on July 10.
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Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports,
Arkansas Online,
18 Aug. 2023
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Jack Thompson,
The Christian Science Monitor,
4 June 2024
Artists hung paintings from trees, converted the walls of stores and restaurants into galleries, and filled some of Dakar’s run-down architectural gems with installations — piles of rubble, pieces of pirogue boats, a tennis court.
—
Ruth MacLean,
New York Times,
30 May 2024
Spanish migration advocacy group Walking Borders said the migrants' pirogue, a large fishing boat, left the seaside town of Fass Boye on July 10.
—
Harold Maass,
The Week,
18 Aug. 2023
The Spanish migration advocacy group Walking Borders said the vessel was a large fishing boat, called a pirogue, which had left Senegal on July 10.
—
Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports,
Arkansas Online,
18 Aug. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pirogue
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Exhibits are displayed in six different rooms and a canoe house.
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After lunch, Bud and Stan took a canoe to explore a long draw of water in back of camp while Ed and I strung up the radio aerial and called Cache Lake.
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Flores and Álvarez, on one of the skiffs, were floating approximately fifteen nautical miles east of the Fiorella.
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The three male crabs are hauled into our polar skiff; the last goes back into the sea to produce the next generation.
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The early whiskey makers in Kentucky were the first to barrel and ship their whiskey on flatboats down to New Orleans.
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On Christmas Eve 1788, settlers hopped into flatboats at Limestone (Maysville, Kentucky) and traveled for four days down the icy Ohio River to establish Losantiville, later called Cincinnati.
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On Friday, June 19, authorities said in a release that the Royal New Zealand Air Force's (RNZAF) P-8A Poseidon crew found the man in his 13-foot aluminum rowboat that morning.
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Even a rowboat can become garden gold with a little imagination.
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Assateague's spectacular national seashore is best explored by kayak.
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On the Water Rent a kayak, canoe, or stand-up paddleboard from Crystal River Outfitters and explore Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore via the meandering Crystal River.
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The drugs were thought to have been brought over by dinghy from Anzio on the mainland, police said.
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His anti-immigration message has shifted from focusing on Polish plumbers to asylum seekers in dinghies.
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While some soon-to-be-retirees are called to the beach or the mountains, others are drawn to lake living and all its perks, like watching sunsets on the dock, grilling outside, and taking the pontoon boat out for daily cruises.
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Captain An Electric Boat Around Morro Bay Estero Adventures rents quiet electric pontoon boats that visitors operate themselves.
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Despite a raft of Western sanctions, Moscow remains among the world's top exporters of oil and natural gas.
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Despite a raft of Western sanctions, Moscow remains among the world’s top exporters of oil and natural gas.
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“Pirogue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pirogue. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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