CANOE in a Sentence

Learn CANOE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

86 example sentences for CANOE, such as:

1. The canoe is made of one big trunk.
2. He hewed a canoe out of a tree trunk.
3. We fixed the canoe onto the car's roof rack.
4. The camp offers hiking, fishing, canoeing, and boating.
5. Paddles are used especially to propel canoes and kayaks.

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 Meanings and Examples of CANOE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
canoe
 n.  small and light boat, pointed at both ends, propelled with a paddle
Classic Sentence: (74 in 5 pages)
1  Well, all at once here comes a canoe; just a beauty, too, about thirteen or fourteen foot long, riding high like a duck.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
2  I shot head-first off of the bank like a frog, clothes and all on, and struck out for the canoe.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
3  It was all grass clear to the canoe, so I hadn't left a track.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
4  So I went and got the bag of meal and my old saw out of the canoe, and fetched them to the house.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
5  Then I tied up the rip in the meal sack with a string, so it wouldn't leak no more, and took it and my saw to the canoe again.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
6  It was about dark now; so I dropped the canoe down the river under some willows that hung over the bank, and waited for the moon to rise.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
7  I made fast to a willow; then I took a bite to eat, and by and by laid down in the canoe to smoke a pipe and lay out a plan.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
8  I got out amongst the driftwood, and then laid down in the bottom of the canoe and let her float.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
9  I got my traps out of the canoe and made me a nice camp in the thick woods.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII.
10  I got everything into the canoe as quick as I could, and then went creeping through the woods to see what I could find out.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII.
11  I tied up in the old place, and reckoned I would sleep in the canoe.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII.
12  So I took my paddle and slid out from shore just a step or two, and then let the canoe drop along down amongst the shadows.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII.
13  So we went back and got the canoe, and paddled up abreast the cavern, and lugged all the traps up there.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX.
14  Then we hunted up a place close by to hide the canoe in, amongst the thick willows.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX.
15  Daytimes we paddled all over the island in the canoe, It was mighty cool and shady in the deep woods, even if the sun was blazing outside.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX.
Example Sentence:
1  If a boat was to come along we was going to take to the canoe and break for the Illinois shore; and it was well a boat didn't come, for we hadn't ever thought to put the gun in the canoe, or a fishing line, or anything to eat.
2  The canoe was tossed about in the maelstrom, it had to leave the dangerous water quickly.
3  When we was ready to shove off we was a quarter of a mile below the island, and it was pretty broad day; so I made Jim lay down in the canoe and cover up with the quilt, because if he set up people could tell he was a nigger a good ways off.
4  So I made Jim lie down in the canoe and cover up with the quilt.
5  So I got all my traps into my canoe again so as to have them out of sight, and I put out the fire and scattered the ashes around to look like an old last year's camp, and then clumb a tree.
6  I took the sack of corn meal and took it to where the canoe was hid, and shoved the vines and branches apart and put it in; then I done the same with the side of bacon; then the whisky-jug.
7  He hewed a canoe out of a tree trunk.
8  The canoe is made of one big trunk.
9  The current was starting to tip the canoe over and I began to panic.
10  We fixed the canoe onto the car's roof rack.
11  Paddles are used especially to propel canoes and kayaks.
12  The camp offers hiking, fishing, canoeing, and boating.