Example sentences for: houseboats

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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