flatboat

Example Sentences

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Having your flatboat regularly get stuck would be the equivalent today of facing massive traffic jams or having your car constantly stall out.

From Salon • Aug. 27, 2022

Times best sellers: Rinker Buck shares his adventures on a wooden flatboat in “Life On The Mississippi,” a nonfiction best seller.

From New York Times • Aug. 21, 2022

The jovial figures in Bingham’s 1846 “The Jolly Flatboatmen” are in high spirits, yet they are dancing precariously on the roof of a Missouri flatboat, under which the cargo space looks cramped, dark and ominous.

From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2020

Apparently, this self-taught prairie lawyer also taught himself how to buoy vessels in his early 20s, when a flatboat he worked on ran aground on a milldam in New Salem, Illinois.

From Slate • May 29, 2014

She could carry three small bucketsful in her bucket, but it was so heavy she couldn’t lift it to dump it into the high tank on the flatboat.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen