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Example sentences for: canals

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Plans were made for a series of new canals forming in a ring or girdle around the old medieval horseshoe — three in all, Herengracht, Keizersgracht, and Prinsengracht.
Sampans and scows ply the canals that divide the farmlands, where barefoot peasants in straw coolie hats squelch through the muddy rice fields.
When the rivers and canals freeze in winter, everyone is out skating — with long distance skating along the coast from town to town on cold, bright Sundays.
The lines of tall, narrow houses with their pretty gables rest beside picture-perfect tree-lined canals.
It is a city of superlatives, having more canals than Venice and more bridges than Paris.