boat
noun
a vessel for transport by water, constructed to provide buoyancy by excluding water and shaped to give stability and permit propulsion.
have boated
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present perfectof boat.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Wallace encouraged people — even those who have boated a lot — to hire a seasoned captain when they visit Tahoe and want to get out on the water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2025
But some researchers have proposed that the earliest migrants from Siberia could have boated along the ice-covered Bering Strait’s shores and down the Pacific coast.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 22, 2022
On summer nights, for decades, unbeknownst to Russell or his family, locals have boated out to this same rock.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 25, 2017
Had I done it earlier, we just may have boated that fish.
From Time Magazine Archive
History-makers have boated upon, and camped by, the Missouri for a hundred years, just as the Mississippi has known them for thrice a hundred.
From Down the Yellowstone by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)
