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canal

[kuh-nal] / kəˈnæl /


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That summer, the couple cancelled a cruise that was due to depart from New York City and go through the Panama canal.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

He basically started with his emergence from the birth canal.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

"Our partially restored Lichfield canal has so many people walking on the towpaths and enjoying it."

From BBC Aug. 1, 2026

"I've lived here for 25 years and the water has never been this low," said pensioner Mitica Nicolae from Corabia as he fished in an irrigation canal close to the river.

From Barron's Jul. 30, 2026

Across the town square I pedaled, over the canal on the Grote Hout bridge and along the Wagenweg, reveling in the thin winter sunshine.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Amsterdam came alive with music, colour and celebration on Saturday, as thousands of people flocked to the canals to watch the city's annual Pride boat parade.

From BBC Aug. 1, 2026

Some ships linked to the Russian government also sail from the Caspian via rivers and canals to the Black Sea where they can transit onward to other ports elsewhere in the world.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

Cities and towns will also get more from the federal canals that are part of the Central Valley Project.

From Los Angeles Times May 21, 2026

Researchers caution that this does not mean root canals are a treatment for diabetes.

From Science Daily May 16, 2026

Its bridges connect to Manhattan and it’s split up by canals and creeks—filthy green streaks of water that remind you that it used to be a swamp.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini

The warmth at his heart annulled whatever of chill stole in at the grayness of the canaled streets of the northern city after the color and glow of Porto.

From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill

Hindu temples, for the many Guyanese descended from laborers from the Indian subcontinent, dot Georgetown’s canalled streets.

From New York Times May 9, 2010

And he should never be blocked in: he should at most be canalled.

From The Invisible Censor by Francis Hackett

It consists of canalling, improving river navigation, rail-roads, and common turnpike roads.

From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by John Mason Peck

When I got old enough, and had money enough, I was determined to go west and seek my fortune; for I always felt that canalling was, somehow, beneath what I wanted to do and become.

From Vandemark's Folly by Herbert Quick

We had a good deal of difficulty at first in our canalling, especially in meeting and passing vessels.

From A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River by Barlow Cumberland

The spirit of improvement throughout the United States, especially evidenced in canalling, and rail-roads, will, it is hoped, in a few years, open modes of communication, which as yet are wanting, with the markets.

From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by John Mason Peck

Those of the latter are more generally found about our large towns and cities, and along the lines of canalling.

From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by John Mason Peck




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