portage
Example Sentences
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“Normally you would only portage a very small section of the river around an impassable rapid, maybe a waterfall or something,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 6, 2025
This was an important historical spot for the Coast Salish peoples as a canoe portage between Lake Washington and Lake Union, before the Montlake Cut was dug to unite the two water bodies.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 3, 2023
If you don’t need quite as much power and portage, Satechi sells a 66W three USB-C port charger for $55.
From The Verge • Jan. 7, 2022
Where it couldn’t, I accepted a nudge, or even in the case of a then-crumbling Saugus River footbridge, a brief portage.
From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2021
It looked not only impossible to go down—even with empty canoes—but the shoreline’s terrain looked too difficult to even build a portage.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
Vocabulary lists containing portage
Tolkien Reading Day, List 5
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