Example sentences for: barges

How can you use “barges” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Human-propelled ferryboats scurry out of the way as long trains of barges, their decks heaped up with onions, reeds, or bricks, labor past.

  • Later, this was the waterway employed by imperial barges when the emperor desired an outing.

  • It gave the local populace a healthy income and began two important elements in the city’s history, the predominance of the merchant classes and the use of barges for inland trade.

  • The Grand Canal is crowded with strings of barges laden with fruit and vegetables, construction materials, or coal.

  • Along the river on either side of Magere Brug are a number of wonderful barges moored on the banks.


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