6 sentences with “boats”

The small fleet of light boats was crossing the sea in calm waters, under a cloudless sky.

It was only 300 million years ago that more powerful things emerged, such as wings and legs to go fast, and it is only 5,000 years ago that we have boats and cars.

Jane began to travel to Cambridge at weekends and would go on picnics with Hawking and his companions on the banks of the River Cam, where they would watch the boats go by.

Mackenzie got as far as the Pacific and even believed (erroneously) that he had discovered the headwaters of the Columbia River, but he could not find an easy water route with a minimum of difficult portages, i.e. points where boats had to be carried overland.

The team lowered small inflatable boats into the water and attached heavy buoys to the net that imprisoned the whale. The whale, struggling to shed this extra burden, soon became fatigued, allowing the specialist to manoeuvre close to the animal, some 300 times its size.

Shipwrecked sailors who were stranded in small boats for many weeks described hallucinations in which they were rescued, sometimes by ghost-like beings or spirits. This bears some analogy to the luminous being or spirits of friends found in the reports of the subjects I have interviewed, Dr. Moody notes.