canal boat

Example Sentences

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Her parents "left home before we did", she says, describing how they bought a canal boat in retirement leaving the children with the family home.

From BBC • Jun. 18, 2024

Life on a rustic canal boat is not all romance.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2021

One summer, my partner and I borrowed a canal boat and motored around the Oxford waterways.

From The Guardian • Oct. 13, 2018

Then-state legislator Ralph Regula and the late Al Simpson, a longtime editor at The Canton Repository, wanted to know if the club members were up for the challenge of building the first canal boat replica.

From Washington Times • Apr. 22, 2017

Newcomers keep arriving—by ship, canal boat, and stagecoach.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman