boatless
- a word derived from boat.
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
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It was a curious fact in natural history that on the lochs with boats the trout were in the shallow water, but in the boatless lochs they were away out in the depths.
From Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness by Van Dyke, Henry