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Recent Examples of sampan
It’s crowded with houseboats, fishing vessels, roving vendors in sampans, and multi-story floating restaurants that drew tourists until the COVID-19 pandemic forced them to shutter.
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H.m.a. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 6 June 2025
Hong Kong: Hong Kong Harbor, one of the world’s most scenic, rewards passengers with vistas of skyscrapers, mountains, ferries and sampans.
—Georgina Cruz, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
Malay, Chinese and Indian laborers did laundry, steered sampan boats and cleared land for the White military members.
—Lilit Marcus, CNN, 16 Sep. 2022
Max, 6, my youngest, bolted past the staff lined up to greet us and planted his nose on the lee-side picture window to watch a woman in a conical hat haul a net of glittering fish onto her sampan.
—Laura Dannen Redman, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 July 2018
Housed in a pastel-yellow colonial building opposite a 16th-century church, its entrance is flanked by tall vases, depicting sampan gliding between karst hills.
—The Economist, 19 May 2018
The petite young woman who rowed our sampan had powerful, broad shoulders and tough, worn hands gripping the oars.
—Diana Lambdin Meyer, kansascity.com, 9 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sampan
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Over the years, the Barnetts have expanded their fleet of canoes and paddleboards from nine to more than 100.—
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Sixteen teams of five people each will go head-to-head to race their canoes.—
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Next comes Emergency Medical Services in a rowboat.—
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By Caity Weaver My quest for a true literary experience resulted in choucroute, a surprise organ feast, an epiphany at the Louvre, existential dread, and a rowboat.—
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From the skiff, Jewel prayed as the officers cuffed the men, allegedly roughed one up, and eventually coerced him into revealing where the stash was.—
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In addition to Machado, two people were on board the fishing skiff that skipped across the sea after a two-month planning process.—
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Kayaks, pontoon boats, standup paddleboards, and more are available through multiple local outfitters, including Boyne Watersports and Charlevoix Adventures.—
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Paddle around the streams and ponds in a canoe or kayak at Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort, or rent a motorized pontoon and explore the surrounding lakes and inlets.—
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Only a handful of rafts floated lazily in the water.—
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The Niners have dealt with a raft of injuries admirably.—
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Offshore, kite surfers dance across the lagoon while fishermen paddle slender pirogues above shallow coral gardens alive with neon wrasse and ghostly butterflyfish.—
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Colorful traditional wooden outrigger canoes called pirogues line the beach where men spend hours mending their nets.—
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Book a Hawaiian outrigger canoe trip at sunrise to watch dolphins.—
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Several California State Parks Ocean Lifeguards earned the Heroic Act Award for treating an Fijian outrigger paddler having a cardiac arrest during a trek from Catalina to Newport Beach.—
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The family friends promised to help Wade find work at a seafood processing plant or on a fish-buying scow.—
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In a startling revelation, the crew members aboard this intergalactic garbage scow turn out to be the descendants of American astronauts launched 200 years earlier during humanity's pre-warp, post-World War III days.—
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“Sampan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sampan. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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