pirogue in a sentence
Examples
- The pirogue always lands on the beach.
- Jeremy John Mayar steps into his wooden pirogue and pushes off into the Bandama River.
- Some late-arriving passengers hopped aboard later from small pirogues that had caught up.
- Rouch spent four months traveling with Sorko fishermen in a traditional Pirogue filming the piece.
- Authorities found him Monday morning after a boat reported seeing a pirogue with a lifeless body.
- On the Lewis and Clark expedition, pirogues were among the boats used during the journey.
- The festivities also include armed combat, beauty pageants, pirogue races, and traditional wrestling.
- The major mode of transportation was by Indian canoes and pirogues ( French dug out canoe ).
- Henry D . Thoreau writes of using heavy pirogues in his book " The Maine Woods ".
- On the Gambia River, burdened pirogues dart around the cumbersome ferry, nearly swamped by its wake.