canal boat

Example Sentences

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Life on a rustic canal boat is not all romance.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2021

She and her sister Eliza, seven, spent an hour a day picking litter during their canal boat holiday in Shropshire, ending their excursion with 12 bags of rubbish.

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2019

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