Example Sentences

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The bulk of these activities take place in rookeries that are often inaccessible to the flightless or boatless.

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2022

Maybe I’ll have to stop scoffing at the boatbuilding capabilities of the boatless.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 6, 2016

Feb. 1, South Lake Union; $5-$12, ages 10 and younger free, free "boatless in Seattle" admission after 5 p.m.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 21, 2015

It seemed like a boatless river frozen there in the raw light of the high white arc-lamps; you could drown trying to cross it, he felt; it was too wide, it was too open.

From "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury

Still, notwithstanding this plentitude of supply, the castaways make up their minds to abandon their present encampment, for a reason that becomes apparent soon after they see themselves boatless.

From The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure by Reid, Mayne