Example sentences for: sampans

How can you use “sampans” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • From the pavilion at the southern tip there is an engrossing view of sampans, barge trains, and passenger ships.

  • But more than any specific landfall, the lake is a spectacle on its own, with its fleet of fishing junks and roving sampans.

  • The daily drama of ferryboats, freighters, junks with dirty grey sails, low-lying sampans — even small tankers and big gunboats — unfolds right in the center of town.

  • The river traffic, meanwhile, keeps amateur photographers snapping in all directions at flat-bottomed tubs, hand-poled bamboo rafts, sampans, and towboats.

  • The river traffic is a motley flotilla of modern container ships and ocean-going junks — their sails the color of grime — of packed ferries and convoys of barges, warships, rusty coasters, and bobbing sampans.


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