Example sentences for: canoe

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

  • True, there is not much subtlety in calling a gun a cannon , a ship a canoe , or an incompetent prizefighter a canvasback ; but that a canoe inspector is a gynecologist is not immediately obvious, that Cement City might be thought picturesquely oblique for a cemetery, and that chain lightning is certainly as descriptive as rotgut for cheap potent liquor cannot escape anyone's notice.

  • It was here in 1808 that they helped Nor’Wester fur trader Simon Fraser with his canoe past the rapids, over a swaying ropeway of vines strung along the canyon wall, enabling him to follow to the ocean the river that bears his name.

  • On Bennett Lake, you can rent a canoe or fish from a rowboat.

  • In the Adirondacks you canoe on the Raquette River, and quickly the trip takes a radical swerve toward bliss.

  • One year ago, I asked you to join me in renewing your environmental license plate -so our children and grandchildren can see the majesty of a bald eagle soaring over Indiana's rural hills and valleys, so we can float down a river in a canoe and enjoy the breathtaking scenery, or so we can hike through the woods and see wildflowers in the spring.


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