Example Sentences

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"Bee" is one of the very few remaining Stroma yoles – a small open-decked boat with a planked hull - that once served the now abandoned island off the northern mainland.

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2025

I planked on the lake shore and did box jumps onto the deck steps.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 14, 2022

I’ve never planked or lunged, to my knowledge.

From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2018

And most importantly, will we still be amusingly able to closely approximate it by tossing a gazillion nails on a wood planked floor?

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2015

In coffins for the not dead and not alive, in planked boxes, the metronomes waited to be set in motion.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury