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Example sentences for: houseboats

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Wood carvings vary from ro sewood elephants or sandalwood camels to the Kashmiris’ finely fretted walnut, created in the style of the screens on the Srinagar houseboats.
Many of the inhabitants live — by choice, not necessarily through economic hardship — on the water, aboard houseboats or in houses on stilts in the main creek.
Over the years many residents have built houseboats on the margins of the mangrove, and this has caused problems for the sensitive environment of the bay.
When there wasn’t enough housing on the land, they looked at the empty canals and decided that houseboats would help.
The rest of the year, life goes on at its accustomed pace: rickety machines chugging in two-man factories, children in school uniforms being ferried home to houseboats, and the old fishermen stirring shrimp paste.