Example sentences for: skis

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

  • Once a dusty, somnolent fishing village, Benoa has turned into a watersports center of buzzing jet skis, motorboats, diving centers, and bars.

  • I've never been on a pair of skis.

  • Roger Ebert calls it a "splendid comic thriller" (the Chicago Sun-Times ). The chases are inventive (skis, powerboats), the double-entendres apt (secretary asks Bond if he'd like to "check her figures"), the women beautiful (Denise Richards and Sophie Marceau), and the plot irrelevant (something about oil pipelines).

  • Waterskiing: This is slightly less popular, but there are facilities in Tel Aviv, which has a mechanical pull (Southern Park; tel. 03-739 1168), and Eilat, which offers the full range of motorized watersports, including jet skis, parasailing, and water bananas.

  • To illustrate the Kennedys' penchant for "adventure," "recklessness," and "disaster," the Post compares John's crash to the death of Joe Kennedy Jr., in a World War II bombing mission and to Michael Kennedy's fatal "crash" into a tree while playing football on skis.


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