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canal

[kuh-nal] / kəˈnæl /


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"The big fly in the ointment is sewage coming into the canal," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Residents in Brentford have raised concerns about sewage flowing into the local canal network, with dead animals washing up over the summer.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Thidarat Silsuwan, who lives alone in her partially submerged house along the Premprachakorn canal, said she did not want to go to a shelter as she worked to clean up and salvage her belongings.

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

We opened the urns and freed Abuela and Abuelo into the canal.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya

He traveled as a private citizen, rather than a politician, reveling in the region’s splendors, its ruins and estates, gardens and canals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

The rain has fallen almost continually since Thursday afternoon, flooding roads and swelling Bangkok's canals, sending water into many homes and restaurants alongside them, AFP reporters saw.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

With a $5-million state grant years ago, he built 5 miles of canals to route floodwaters to fields.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

People have been urged to stay at home and those living close to the city's network of canals have been advised to move their belongings to upper floors.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

My mom nodded, and Carmen smiled as I watched Abuela’s and Abuelo’s ashes move with the current down the twists and turns of the many canals that made up our beautiful neighborhood.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya

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

It consists of canalling, improving river navigation, rail-roads, and common turnpike roads.

From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by John Mason Peck

The stern part was taken down the long upper level by a small tug, but teams were employed in towing for all the remaining portions of the canalling.

From A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River by Barlow Cumberland

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

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




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