How to Use dinghy in a Sentence

dinghy

noun
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  • Get the life raft over the side, get the dinghy over the side.
    — Douglas Robertson, Peoplemag, 6 June 2024
  • In the middle of the Aegean Sea, the motor of the dinghy cut out.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The dinghy held the raft back and stopped the wind from blowing it away.
    — Douglas Robertson, Peoplemag, 6 June 2024
  • Tanya then tries to climb off the yacht onto the dinghy.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Alas, a dinghy is what showed up — and a tiny one at that.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 18 Sep. 2020
  • The coast guard then pulls in the dinghy and transfers the migrants to its boat.
    — Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2017
  • The staff will pick you up in a small dinghy from the beach near Maykana and whisk you off to the yacht.
    — Joni Sweet, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Tanya dies by falling over the side of the yacht and hitting her head on the dinghy.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 12 Dec. 2022
  • In footage filmed from a coast guard boat, the group is seen in a rubber dinghy.
    — Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2017
  • Why does Tanya choose to jump instead of walking down the stairs to the dinghy?
    — Dallas News, 12 Dec. 2022
  • The dinghy had been left there; the men were vanishing.
    — Hermione Hoby, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
  • Luckily, the girl on the dinghy had a radio and called the Coast Guard.
    — Marina Watts, Peoplemag, 18 July 2024
  • With all hope just about lost, the ship spots them and sends two sailors in a dinghy to scoop them up.
    — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Kader sat aboard the dinghy as it was pushed off from shore.
    — Kenneth R. Rosen, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2022
  • But there’s always a chance that the dinghy takes the bow of an oil tanker broadside.
    — Mark Yost, WSJ, 4 May 2018
  • The dinghy was then lifted 40 feet in the air by a boom and swung onto the island.
    — Bill Van Niekerken, SFChronicle.com, 7 Aug. 2019
  • Mark Leirer, a field nurse, said of the dinghy on display.
    — Otis R. Taylor Jr., San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2017
  • All of the boys had made the dangerous journey by dinghy from the Libyan coast.
    — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2017
  • The next morning, Wood's body was found a mile from the yacht and the dinghy was found beached, police have said.
    — Andrew Blankstein, NBC News, 5 Feb. 2018
  • That and being on a dinghy in a red bathing suit with Colin Firth next to you.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 11 July 2021
  • Over a three-week span in August, dozens of small boats and dinghies were stolen, stripped for parts and sunk.
    — Will McCarthy, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The missing appeared to have all been in the same dinghy, whose remnants were found near the city of Khoms, the navy said.
    — The Associated Press, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2018
  • That means the men's and women's 470 and men's heavyweight Finn dinghy as events in their own right will drop out of the Olympics.
    — Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 15 May 2018
  • People on the beach grabbed a nearby dinghy and tried to row out to her but were caught in the strong current.
    — Iliana Magra, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2020
  • She had been forced to escape to the water with her two children in a tiny dinghy.
    — Annette Lin, The New Republic, 13 Jan. 2020
  • There is also a garage aft near the sunbed that can house water toys, gear and even a small dinghy.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 12 Dec. 2022
  • By the time the dinghy arrived at the Hansens’ boat, the Conception was engulfed in flames, said Bob Hansen.
    — Los Angeles Times, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Off the beach, a group of snorkelers ply the fish-rich waters, while the dinghy that brought them to shore has been returned to the cruise ship.
    — Star Tribune, 16 Apr. 2021
  • His journey included a train, a car, a dinghy, and a bus.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Meanwhile, sailing has added men's kite, women's kite and dinghy.
    — NBC News, 23 July 2024

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