canal
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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 big fly in the ointment is sewage coming into the canal," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Thidarat Silsuwan, 56, lives alone in her partially submerged house along the Premprachakorn canal.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 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
She also had a little business baking cookies for restaurants in the French Quarter, the fancy neighborhood across the canal.
From "I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005" by Lauren Tarshis
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Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt said on social media Sunday that several roads remained flooded and water levels in the city's canals were still high, but authorities were working to speed up drainage.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
The state also helped local agencies bring in diesel-powered pumps and other equipment to suck water out of rivers and into canals.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
Data-center spending is greater than that for canals, railroads, and grid combined—creating jobs and stock-market wealth, while boosting inflation and crowding out housing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
The Venetian Resort, at the heart of the Las Vegas Strip, is already a surreal place—the interior includes an indoor St. Mark’s Square with chlorine-blue canals, old-timey lampposts, and a painted blue sky.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
Fifteen feet deep and miles and miles long, Miami’s canals funneled freshwater from the Everglades and rainwater from regular storms through the city and out to the sea.
From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz
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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 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
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
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
The canalling is managed by a Board of Commissioners.
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
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