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

The reconstruction Hatfield did on St. Helena II used the same canal boat model to restore the boat after it had been abandoned for years without upkeep when it retired.

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