Sentence examples for of barge from inspiring English sources

"And to just sort of barge in on another photographer and tell him to pose … you feel kind of funny".

By Brendan Gill The New Yorker, August 25 , 1945P. 25 PROFILE of Barge Captain Hartwell Stuart Shippey.

The costs of barge transport depend on the number of barges being towed by a single towboat; this in turn depends on the dimensions of the waterway.

Evansville has a modern river terminal that provides for interchange of barge, rail, and truck traffic, and there is a regional airport.

Tomorrow night and Sunday afternoon will feature an ensemble of barge regulars playing Shostakovich's brilliant Piano Quintet along with works by Schubert and Strauss.

"There's some sort of barge going past," he continued falteringly, with a panic-stricken look over his shoulder at the grey river.

We swung by the "little fishing village of Sausalito" – which by 1977 was a bohemian art commune full of barge-dwelling hippies.

Wood and his brothers were the first in a dynasty of barge-living water Gypsies to be born on land, and his childhood on a council estate near Heathrow opens the volume as an unexpectedly evocative black-and-white word-movie.

The mode of transport from 1840 onward was by tugs towing a number of barges.

In deep seas with large waves, ships instead of barges are used to lay the pipe.

Removal was slowed by storms, rising water and a shortage of barges.