CANAL in a Sentence

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27 example sentences for CANAL, such as:

1. The canal is open to shipping.
2. We walked along by the side of the canal.
3. The plain is intersected by a network of canals.
4. The city is dissected by a network of old canals.
5. The lake communicates with the sea by means of a canal.

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 Meanings and Examples of CANAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
canal
 n.  artificial channel filled with water; tube or duct
Classic Sentence:
1  It was a huge desolate plain; some wild bushes stood up here and there, while across the field flowed a broad canal or river.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
2  This small staff was quite equal to all the requirements, for a canal between Beaucaire and Aiguemortes had revolutionized transportation by substituting boats for the cart and the stagecoach.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 26. The Pont du Gard Inn.
3  I was now safe, for I could swim along the ditch without being seen, and I reached the canal in safety.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 44. The Vendetta.
4  Maximilian crossed the canal and entered the Rue Meslay by the boulevards.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 105. The Cemetery of Pere-la-Chaise.
5  Now, I consider that the phrenologists have omitted an important thing in not pushing their investigations from the cerebellum through the spinal canal.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 80. The Nut.
6  As it passes through the remaining vertebrae the canal tapers in size, but for a considerable distance remains of large capacity.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 80. The Nut.
7  It is certain that the mouth indirectly communicates with the spouting canal; but it cannot be proved that this is for the purpose of discharging water through the spiracle.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.
8  It was now April, and the snow had given place to cold rains, and the unpaved street in front of Aniele's house was turned into a canal.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
9  They had reached the canal bridge and, turning from their course, went on by the trees.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
10  I hid my books in the long grass near the ashpit at the end of the garden where nobody ever came and hurried along the canal bank.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In AN ENCOUNTER
11  So we went for a walk round by the canal and she told me she was a slavey in a house in Baggot Street.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In TWO GALLANTS
12  approached it a repulsive, yellow, steaming liquid shot out causing some rats to scurry away into the nearby canal.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter
13  But at last he came to one of the open canals with pavement on either side, and looping bridges, that run straight, at right-angles to the Grand Canal.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
14  She was an inveterate watercolour painter, and the house was full of rose-coloured palaces, dark canals, swaying bridges, medieval facades, and so on.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
15  She took him by the arm, and walked with him about a quarter of a mile into the country; they arrived at a lonely house, surrounded with gardens and canals.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In VII
Example Sentence:
1  Many oceangoing ships are sailing on the canal, which is a shortcut to save time and money.
2  Look at the report and be prepared to be shocked by the photo of the main drainage canal.
3  So much sand had built up at the bottom of the canal that the waterway was barely navigable.
4  The alimentary canal in our bodies is so named because digestion of foods occurs there.
5  The official delegation including Jimmy Carter, the Panamanian president Mireya Moscoso and King Juan Carlos of Spain visited two cemeteries to offer floral wreaths to the tens of thousands who died carving the canal across the Central American isthmus.
6  The canal is open to shipping.
7  They have to dredge the canal regularly to keep it open.
8  The lake communicates with the sea by means of a canal.
9  We walked along by the side of the canal.
10  The city is dissected by a network of old canals.
11  The plain is intersected by a network of canals.
12  Water is channelled through a series of irrigation canals.