Example Sentences

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Yet Iran primarily sets mines using frogmen on small boats that resemble ordinary fishing vessels, an informal maritime militia of dinghies that is virtually impossible to identify and eliminate.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

Many of those arrived in the country illegally on small dinghies across the English Channel from France.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

Last year a BBC investigation exposed how Germany's used as a hub, by small-boat smugglers, to store dinghies that are then used for illegal English Channel crossings.

From BBC • Oct. 24, 2025

Residents quoted by local media said they had had to leave their homes in dinghies in the middle of the night.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2024

I can see Hansa, merchant ships, old fishing boats, trawlers, and even dinghies that have brought fleeing people from the nearby lagoon.

From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys