Example sentences for: canoes

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

  • On a stay at one of these lodges, a half day is usually spent in dug-out canoes searching for endangered gharials, a narrow jawed fish-eating crocodile, and their flesh-eating cousins, the huge marsh muggers.

  • These Indians, also from South America, swept north in fast seagoing canoes, attacking and either eating or driving Arawak men off island after island, then appropriating their women.

  • This is the country through which the Nor’Westers’ coureurs de bois paddled their way to the Indian trappers’ remote camps, adopting the natives’ lore for tackling the wilderness, including their snowshoes, toboggans, and birchbark canoes.

  • Compare the sturdy cedarwood canoes, built to negotiate the Pacific’s coastal waters, with the lighter birchbark craft used by Eastern Woodlands Indians for the rivers of Ontario and Québec.

  • Where his peers wrote frenzied accounts of Vietnam and racial strife, he gravitated toward tamer subjects--the young Bill Bradley, for example, and canoes.


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