Boatman used in a sentence

Boatman in a sentence as a noun

Two men stood at the verge of the cliff, watching: businessman, boatman. — She's making for Bullock harbour. The boatman nodded towards the north of the bay with some disdain.

Two people, including the boatman went into the hole, getting Maytagged for a bit before they were spit out. I skirted the edge but got by safely, no thanks to my puny attempts at swimming against that current.

With only one vessel in town, a boatman was generally not allowed to charge a butcher more than a carpenter to move goods. This concept, called 'common carriage', has served the world well, most recently on the internet."

Born to a boatman, walking miles to school, born before the convenience of computing and the internet - his journey to becoming the President of India is truly remarkable and inspiring at the same time. I saw the picture of him falling just before his death, and i am disturbed.

If you go there it’s also worth paying a boatman to row you to the opposite bank, which is a very different place to the center of Varanasi. If you want to see a similar but also very different settlement on the Ganges, Rishikesh is also amazing, I liked it more than Varanasi.

Meanwhile, the full text of the books is on Google Books at Google's expense and available in any browser, but Google is forced by the "protectors of history" at Cambridge to cloak many of the pages of 1000-yr-old data, because history is too precious to allow the unworthy to see their photocopied Victorian texts without first going on an old-fashioned quest, bribing the boatman, answering the troll's three questions, etc. My hope is that at some point there will be a cultural change among "historical preservation" organizations where they decide that the greatest thing they can do to promote their field is to find every original document in every collection, carefully photograph it in hi-rez using whatever optical frequencies bring out the most faded detail, and contribute it to a free online host.