Sentence examples for barge from inspiring English sources
The word "barge" is correct and usable in written English
It is usually used to describe a type of large boat or vessel. For example, "The barge slowly sailed up the river while the passengers enjoyed the picturesque scenery."
noun
A large flat-bottomed towed or self-propelled boat used mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods or bulk cargo
Vehicles are carried separately on a pontoon barge, and may take up to a week longer.
Five years later, in August of 2000, cannons boomed, church bells rang and thousands watched from the harborside as the sub was raised and brought by barge to a conservation lab in North Charleston.
The slogan "New York, Empire City" reflected a time after the completion of the Erie Canal in the 1820s, when goods were shipped into New York's port and then taken further west to Ohio by barge.
Presumably standing up as he speaks on the phone, Archibald none the less appears in good spirits as he talks about his new purchase, using terms such as "project" and "attractive package" where others might have preferred "barge pole".
You need to book the passenger tickets before you can organise the barge for the vehicles.
Philip, who is 91 on Sunday, had joined his family on the royal barge during the Thames diamond jubilee river pageant.
Private landowners might be drawn in as well.But allowing wealthy gardeners to queue-barge would run against the spirit and history of the allotment movement.
So the state finds itself once again in court.In this section A barge-load of grievances Back on the bus Age cannot wither them The halt, the blind, the dyslexic For richer, for poorer And we are the law White scalps tingling ReprintsAlthough the state of New Jersey is the defendant in this suit, Mrs Whitman is far from opposed to the ideas of the plaintiff.
ACCESS to the village of Dehlo from the nearest town, Mehsi, is by a ferry-barge punted across a river, and a bumpy dirt track through a thickly populated succession of villages, in one of the poorest parts of India.
Mr Wu nowadays dreams about building an 18-mile (29km) bridge to connect Hong Kong to Macau and Zhuhai on the estuary's western side.In the other corner is Li Ka-shing, a legendary investor who runs, among many other things, most of Hong Kong's container port and the river-barge trade that feeds it, as well as a younger and faster-growing port in the eastern delta.
Based on his experience with the Science Barge, he has devised a rule of thumb: generating enough electricity using solar panels requires an area about 20 times larger than the area being illuminated.
