Sentence examples for barge like from inspiring English sources
She wanted to tell stories of her own, she said, and the barge, like the London ferry, and a similar excursion aboard a Victorian train near St Moritz before it, are the way she tells them.
They ask these questions even on days like this one, when Mr. Dufel is standing in an orange life vest, watching brown water flood Lock 16 here and lift his loaded barge like a toy battleship in a bathtub.
Perhaps his boldest bash was his Titanic-themed party in 1998: he decorated a barge like the doomed ship, loaded it with V.I.P.'s in tuxedos and ball gowns, and then made the vessel sink in Lake Austin, forcing his guests, including Kirk Watson, the mayor of Austin at the time, to swim to shore.
This time around, though, SpaceX is attempting to land the rocket on solid ground rather than a robotic barge like previous attempts that resulted in fiery crashes.
The floating barge, like its sister ship "Just Read The Instructions," is named after a starship in the late Iain M. Banks sci-fi novels.
A big, fat-bellied, barge-like boat, known as a rat — topo — and used for hauling everything in the city, from trash to melons to cement, three men in it, burbled by.
At about 10 P.M. on March 8, after the Merrimack had spent the day demolishing two jewels of the Union fleet, the Cumberland and the Congress, anchored around Hampton Roads in southeastern Virginia, Union Army lookouts spied a "dim outline of a queer, barge-like craft come into the Roads," as one soldier at nearby Fort Monroe later recalled.
Other residence ship projects that have been reported include the America World City, proposed by the World City Corporation with investors that include Westin Hotels and Resorts, and Freedom Ship, the barge-like craft proposed by Freedom Ship International, which anticipates 40,000 residents living on a 25-story ship.
Following the winding path will eventually lead you down to the bars of the Aker Brygge promenade, like the barge-like Lekter'n (Stranden 3; 47-22-83-00-60), where many of the city's youth are getting ready for their night to shift into high gear.
Experiments are carried out in a wave flume, to study wave propagation in a narrow channel along a barge-like structure, attached to one of the side-walls.
His trip, which you might call voluntourism, offers him the opportunity to swat mosquitoes aboard a barge-like boat, in concert with Peruvian colleagues.
