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Example sentences for: sampans

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You can take a tour of the port in one of the small sampans, propelled by hand by women drivers.
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.
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.
From the pavilion at the southern tip there is an engrossing view of sampans, barge trains, and passenger ships.
The river traffic, meanwhile, keeps amateur photographers snapping in all directions at flat-bottomed tubs, hand-poled bamboo rafts, sampans, and towboats.