canal
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Brentford Community Boathouse events officer Kelly Everden, who volunteered on a clean-up operation organised by Keane, said the children who used the canal were worst affected.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
He said he did not believe this was Hounslow Council's fault, but that it needed attention "if we do want to develop usage of the canal, particularly for children on the water".
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
"The risk areas are those who live near canals. Every canal is now filled."
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
His surviving notes capture ordinary moments from daily life, including records of how much he spent on food for his children along the canal.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
They would join the road, and they would need to stay on it all the way to the defense line at the Bergues-Furnes canal.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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He traveled as a private citizen, rather than a politician, reveling in the region’s splendors, its ruins and estates, gardens and canals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
The rain has fallen almost continually since Thursday afternoon, flooding roads and swelling Bangkok's canals, sending water into many homes and restaurants alongside them, AFP reporters saw.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
During the last floods in 2023, many siphoned water from the brimming canals to their fields.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
The rain is expected to continue into Sunday, raising fears that more canals could burst their banks.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
Instead, they snaked along the canals that led deeper inland, toward the metals district.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
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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
The stern part was taken down the long upper level by a small tug, but teams were employed in towing for all the remaining portions of the canalling.
From A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River by Barlow Cumberland
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 canalling is managed by a Board of Commissioners.
From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by John Mason Peck
Indeed, I never can believe I am at sea at all, on the Atlantic, the passages between New-York and Portsmouth being little more than so much canalling along a tow-path.
From Home as Found by James Fenimore Cooper
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