paddleboat

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Recent Examples of paddleboat Visit the butterfly garden at the Texas Discovery Gardens, paddleboat with a view of the Ferris wheel or explore one of the fair's museums. Naheed Rajwani-Dharsi, Axios, 27 Sep. 2024 His wife had to rescue him on a paddleboat before taking him to the hospital. Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2024 Public feedback about the project sparked the idea to add a spot for people to access the water with paddleboats, Barron said. Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 7 June 2024 Look for the distinctive blue label featuring Willow Ware china, a paddleboat, magnolia blooms, and a flying pelican. Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 31 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for paddleboat
Recent Examples of Synonyms for paddleboat
Noun
  • Visitors can stay the night in lakeside cabins or pitch a tent in the campground or a canoe campsite, which is only accessible by water.
    Kristy Christiansen, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Travelers interested in Polynesian culture may want to test the resort’s traditional outrigger canoe on a trip to one of the surrounding private islets that share an atoll with the Brando.
    Laura Begley Bloom, AFAR Media, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The two end their day with a romantic ride in a rowboat, which Grant has no clue how to operate.
    Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 18 Feb. 2025
  • After that, the cast headed out on their first mission, which required them to paddle a rowboat around the loch and capture a maximum of $40,000 while leaving two contestants at each of the five pontoons along the way, which also left them vulnerable to be the first one murdered.
    Dana Rose Falcone, People.com, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In summer, the Lake Logan Marina rents kayaks, paddleboards, and pedalboats (from $14 an hour) and local outfitter Touch Earth Adventures runs evening kayak excursions in search of the lake’s elusive giant beaver ($100 for three hours).
    Jen Murphy, Outside Online, 24 Feb. 2025
  • And once the building is back in shape, the 100 kayaks stuffed into Tunro’s bedrooms at home must be brought back.
    Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Just for a minute, my husband and I agree, because the weather is beautiful, because my son does look like my father, because the pontoon is big and fancy and the baby has never been on a boat before.
    Julie Buntin, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
  • On Tuesday, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear told Morning Edition that he's been traveling across the state on a pontoon boat, mourning with the families of recently deceased residents and helping those who were displaced.
    Destinee Adams, NPR, 18 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Domingo Trujillo, captain of the agency's rescue vessel, told broadcaster TVE that rescuers had been aware that a pregnant woman was on the dinghy.
    Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2025
  • In 1972, Scottish sailor Dougal Robertson and his family survived for 38 days at sea in a small dinghy after killer whales sunk their schooner near the Galapagos Islands.
    Outside Online, Outside Online, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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.
    Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 15 Dec. 2024
  • The early whiskey makers in Kentucky were the first to barrel and ship their whiskey on flatboats down to New Orleans.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Under Trump's flip-flopping raft of tariffs, Washington placed a 10 percent tariff on Canadian energy, the major supplier to U.S. states hugging the northern border.
    William Lambers, Newsweek, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Signs for how Beijing plans to address these challenges will also be closely watched, after a raft of policy adjustments since last summer were seen as falling short.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Another could see guests hiking to a glacial lake or going for a skiff tour among icebergs.
    Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 18 Feb. 2025
  • Founder Christopher Columbus Smith built his first wooden boat, a skiff, in 1874, as a 13-year-old growing up on the St. Clair River in Algonac, Michigan.
    Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 24 Dec. 2024

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