barge
Example Sentences
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Grains are largely shipped via barge to ports, where they are then sent abroad.
The scale of the heat pumps was determined partly by limits on the size of machinery that could be transported through the streets of Mannheim, or potentially via barges along the Rhine.
From BBC
This Irish stoker with a wild temper washes up on the barge where Anna is now living with her father.
From Los Angeles Times
Then she slow-motion struts down an L.A. sidewalk in heels, barges into the meeting, props her bloody, bandaged foot on the table, and somehow still closes the deal with the celebrity stylist.
From Salon
Marthy, who has been living with Chris on the coal barge he works on, agrees to vamoose so Anna can take up residence there.
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