Example Sentences

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Toward the end of Day 1, Mr. Hartman was poling a relatively shallow flat when a school of reds perhaps 30 strong appeared around us.

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2016

Charon was poling us across a dark, oily river, swirling with bones, dead fish, and other, stranger things—plastic dolls, crushed carnations, soggy diplomas with gilt edges.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

There were people under the lindens, people at the doors and open windows, people in boats rowing towards us; one man was poling a scow in which were a cow and two horses.

From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)

He was poling, for there wan't a breath o' wind, and he always felt certain there was somethin' mysterious about it.

From A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches by Jewett, Sarah Orne

Ten minutes later when he opened his eyes, they were afloat, and she was poling the raft into deeper water.

From A Mating in the Wilds by Binns, Ottwell