Sentence examples for as canals from inspiring English sources

Mr. Schiaparelli called them "canali," which can as easily be translated to mean "channels" as "canals".

Ludovico sponsored extensive work in civil and military engineering, such as canals and fortifications.

It is crossed with roads and railways as well as canals, but these somehow add to the experience.

The name Schiaparelli gave the dark lines he saw on the Martian surface actually means "channels", but when reported in English it was rendered as "canals".

Some, like village churchyards, are in the heart of the countryside; others, such as canals, run through the centre of our cities.

There is enough green space across our 56 parks to fit 450 football pitches, as well as canals, rivers and woodland.

Several Wiseman works, such as "Canal Zone" and "Meat," end with a curious sense of diminuendo.

In recent years, poetry and canals have moved even closer, with the appointment in 2013 of Jo Bell as Canal Laureate.

In gas-discharge tubes these particles were first detected as "canal rays" or anode rays.

Sir Vivian Stanshall's description of a fictional English country estate, Rawlinson's End, could apply equally to cricket: "as changing yet changeless as canal water".

But his dismissal as canal commissioner in 1824 caused such indignation statewide that he was swept into the governorship the next year and served until his death.