BOAT in a Sentence

Learn BOAT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
310 example sentences for BOAT, such as:
1. I swept along on the boat.
2. A boat came into my line of vision.
3. The boat bumped against a solid object.
4. We paddled a little boat in the West Lake.
5. The only access to the village is by boat.
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 Meanings and Examples of BOAT
boat
 n.  a dish (often boat-shaped) for serving gravy or sauce
 n.  a small vessel for travel on water
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I run my boat into New York, buy from Yankee firms, sub rosa, of course, and away I go.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  He had never lost a boat or even been forced to dump a cargo.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  A pagan hearing the lapping of the waters around Charon's boat could not have felt more desolate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  Rhett had brought her that linen and lace from Nassau on the last boat he slipped through the blockade and she had worked a week to make the garment.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  You remember when the blockade tightened, I couldn't get a boat out of any Confederate port or into one, so there the money stayed in England.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
6  They aren't important when a boat is sinking.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
7  My early youth was spent as a gambler on a river boat and I can understand people like that.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
8  When Maud and Erik returned and the grouping shifted, Erik muttered at Carol, "There's a boat on shore."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
9  The breeze flowed round the boat in a chill current.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
10  She rose slowly, slowly stepped over the water in the bottom of the old boat.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
11  Not as coy or uneasy lovers but as companions they walked to the boat, and he lifted her up on the prow.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
12  Then he condescended, "Better jump out here and I'll take the boat around back."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
13  The men pushed their light boat out on the burnished lake, disappeared beyond the reeds.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
14  They had just landed from their boat, and this was the first house they entered.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
15  And therefore three cheers for Nantucket; and come a stove boat and stove body when they will, for stave my soul, Jove himself cannot.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7. The Chapel.
Example Sentence: (100 in 7 pages)
1  The only access to the village is by boat.
2  The boat should be operational by this afternoon.
3  They had just had enough time to swim out of danger when the boat again completed a circle.
4  The boat bumped against a solid object.
5  I swept along on the boat.
6  One of the best ways to see the area is in a small boat.
7  Sometimes she fantasized about buying a boat and sailing around the world.
8  The boy pulled the boat's head round in order to avoid the conflict with the boat in front of him.
9  The times that people used canvas boat have become history.
10  Try to steer the light boat to the big ship so that we can be picked up.
11  The water that bears the boat is the same that swallows it up.
12  A boat came into my line of vision.
13  They pushed the boat down to the water on rollers.
14  She knew I wanted to try the boat out at the weekend.
15  We paddled a little boat in the West Lake.