How to Use boatman in a Sentence

boatman

noun

• In those four minutes the bruised boatmen collect 19 of the fish.
  — Richard Adams Carey, WSJ, 12 May 2019
• To get here, fly into the airport on Beef Island and a boatman will pick you up.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017
• First liberty got drunk as a Lord with Shults & two of small boatmen.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2018
• When the tide was low, some boatmen were stopping a few hundred meters (yards) short and asking people to wade in the rest of the way.
  — Muneeza Naqvi, The Seattle Times, 5 Sep. 2017
• On Tuesday it was announced that Canico’s body had been found by a boatman about half a mile from the concert site.
  — Reuters, The Mercury News, 2 Aug. 2019
• Hurriedly, the boatman took all people on board to escape the firing.
  — Rebecca Wright, CNN, 13 Sep. 2017
• Fra Ezio has played the role of Charon, the boatman on the mythic River Styx, ferrying souls from one threshold to another.
  — Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2020
• To professional boatmen, craft such as the Recreation were a nuisance.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2017
• In the 1930s, a boatman on the Paraná River kidnapped and devoured children in the name of a supernatural being, El Horario.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 17 Nov. 2023
• The 65-year-old boatman has been transporting locals, goods and livestock across the river for about a quarter century.
  — Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
• The outgoing lighthouse keepers are Jillian Meeker and Che Rogers—the former a skilled cook, the latter a talented boatman who’s sailed the world over.
  — Maude Campbell, Popular Mechanics, 8 Jan. 2019
• In the movie, two boatmen drinking in a tavern look out the window and see a mother and daughter on a swing, then proceed to seduce them by taking them for a ride downriver.
  — Thomas Hine, Philly.com, 3 May 2018
• But now various health problems were beginning to emerge among the overtaxed boatmen.
  — Larry Rohter, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2023
• Unfortunately, morning on the river starts before sunrise, when the boatmen fire up the outboards and the hornbills start squawking and the rustle of leaves hints at the primates feeding in the canopy.
  — Paul Brady, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Nov. 2018
• His steam-boatmen father, Captain Henry L. Hoyt, piloted a vessel that in 1850 delivered cargo to the promising port for the first time.
  — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 17 Apr. 2018
• Someone else reports having seen an open leishmaniasis sore on one of the boatmen.
  — Richard Conniff, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• Hungry male relatives file through the door: first an uncle, then a younger cousin, and finally Rada’s father, Wang Ji Zengheng, on break from his job as a boatman guiding tourists on the nearby lake.
  — Jason Motlagh, Marie Claire, 18 Jan. 2018
• Railroad workers - joined now by miners, iron workers and boatmen from the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal - hid under bridges or behind blind curves, emerging to ambush trains with stones or block their tracks with debris.
  — Fredrick Kunkle, chicagotribune.com, 3 Sep. 2017
• One of the boatmen accused of misconduct was not fired until last summer, 19 months after the inspector general's report.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 14 Oct. 2017
• Gregorarz worked on several scenes, including one between Roulin and a boatman.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 12 Oct. 2017
• An authentic boatman who built his own puparìn, a graceful, gondola-like rowing boat that makes Brunetti swoon, Casati loves every watery inch of his domain.
  — Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2017
• It was passed down for generations by boatmen through their oral history, according to a local media report.
  — Chris Lau, CNN, 22 June 2023
• Antônio Viana, a boatman who transports people across the Acre River, confronts declining water levels in July.
  — John Muyskens, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
• By extension, the book is teeming with those who earn their living on the water: sailors, stevedores, lobstermen, shipbuilders and that particular maritime specialist prized by the underworld, the boatman who sinks bodies to the bottom of the sea.
  — Amor Towles, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2017
• Abdellah, a boatman, continues to offer rides across the Bouregreg river between Rabat and Salé despite the absence of the foreign and domestic tourists who provided the bulk of his income before the pandemic.
  — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2020
• Ideal would be on a houseboat in Kerala, motoring down the backwaters with my own cook and boatman and sipping toddy; or else under an umbrella at some warm beach while digitally disconnected.
  — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
• The womenalleged that their complaints — of being threatened and inappropriately touched and photographed by boatmen in charge of educational floats along the Colorado River — had not been addressed.
  — Louis Sahagun, latimes.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• Perhaps the pièce de résistance is Lago Enriquillo, a 135-square mile saltwater lake, where boatmen take passengers out on the water to observe American crocodiles in their natural habitat.
  — Mark Rogers, USA TODAY, 4 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024