Sentence examples for boat based on the from inspiring English sources

Show Boat, based on the novel by Edna Ferber, was the earliest U.S. musical play with a serious plot drawn from a literary source.

Her fundraising goal was to raise money to build something called the Manko-boat or Manbo, essentially "pussy boat," based on the shape of her vagina.

ABC's sitcom "Fresh Off the Boat," based on Eddie Huang's memoir of the same name, has become a hit by telling the story of one immigrant family's journey from Taiwan to America.

"A singular disadvantage of the sea," Stephen Crane wrote in his 1897 story "The Open Boat," based on his experiences on a lifeboat off the coast of Florida, "lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover that there is another behind it just as important".

Along with the premiere of Fresh Off the Boat (based on VICE host Eddie Huang's memoir), Black-ish ushered in a somewhat new idea that a central non-white family could be marketable enough to justify a prime time slot on one of the nation's largest television networks.

Here are three areas where the new pope could seriously rock the boat, based on some of his utterances so far.

Much like the 1986 musical Rags, his efforts to create a workable script from such a messy history only makes one have a deeper appreciation for the success of 1927's Show Boat (based on Edna Ferber's 1926 novel) and 1998's Ragtime (based on E. L. Doctorow's 1975 novel).

Private firms were contracted to develop boats based on criteria outlined by the Navy.

Untold numbers of American sailors lost their lives thanks to the 21 German U-Boats based on Spain's Atlantic coast.

Theater BELLPORT Gateway Playhouse "Show Boat," musical based on the novel by Edna Ferber.

On exchange in Britain during 1929 30, De La Rue underwent familiarisation with aircraft carriers, and served on the staff of No. 201 (Flying Boat) Squadron, based on the south coast of England.