blackwater rafting

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NZ the sport of riding through underground caves on a large rubber tubeAlso called: cave tubing

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Words nearby blackwater rafting

Black Warrior River, blackwash, Black Watch, blackwater, blackwater fever, blackwater rafting, black wattle, blackweed, Blackwell, black whale, black widow

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How to use blackwater rafting in a sentence

But what—beside perhaps killing ISIS members—could The Artist Formerly Known As Blackwater do for the world today?
Blackwater Founder Wants to Fight Ebola, ISIS, and for the GOP to ‘Get Off Their Ass’|Asawin Suebsaeng|September 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
So I asked him what he sees in terms of the humanitarian potential for something like Blackwater in the world today.
Blackwater Founder Wants to Fight Ebola, ISIS, and for the GOP to ‘Get Off Their Ass’|Asawin Suebsaeng|September 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The idea of rafting on top of people is just as bizarre as well.
DJ Steve Aoki: To Cake or Not To Cake|Steve Aoki|August 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The subsequent investigation of this shooting was what prompted a Blackwater manager to threaten a State Department official.
Blackwater: Murder Threats Were Just The Start|Tim Mak|June 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST

“American Embassy officials in Baghdad sided with Blackwater rather than the State Department investigators,” the paper notes.
Blackwater: Murder Threats Were Just The Start|Tim Mak|June 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
With a heavy heart he set out for the Blackwater, and began building a fort there.
Ireland Under the Tudors, Vol. II (of 3)|Richard Bagwell
Then he worked all day fixing things in bundles, and getting all ready to quit rafting.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete|Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
To salvage the sticks that spilled, to arrange the booms for rafting down stream, kept Hollister on the move.
The Hidden Places|Bertrand W. Sinclair
He had his experiments to watch, his potatoes and tobacco, his yellow wallflowers, in the pleasant garden by the Blackwater.
Sir Walter Ralegh|William Stebbing
He was bound to one of the logs down in the great stone pot of Blackwater Eddy.
The Backwoodsmen|Charles G. D. Roberts