Sentence examples for their barge from inspiring English sources

There are legends (that is, made-up stories intended to celebrate, not inform) that Anthony and Cleopatra, in the heady days of early love, feasted on cheeses from the milk of the water buffalo pulling their barge down the Nile, then somehow sent samples to Rome.

For starters, there was the matter of securing a barge; Ms. Mattingly and her team endured two false starts (one of them when their barge sank) before a marine yard in New Jersey rented them the current vessel for $3,600 a month.

Green Day play "Nearer, My God, to Thee" on violins as their barge sinks, in a sequence parodying the film Titanic.

While performing on Lake Springfield, rock band Green Day is killed when the lake's pollution dissolves their barge, following an audience revolt after front man Billie Joe Armstrong proposes an environmental discussion.

Charles II gave the Dutch permission to sail their barges up the Thames with their cargos of eels.

Eventually, the workers accepted the surrender of the Pinkertons, who were led off their barges and to the local jail for protection.

While that is no deeper than many swimming pools, it is just enough to keep tow boats and their barges afloat, though loaded more lightly than the shippers wish.

(Some suspect it was sabotaged by one of the companies that used the canal, as the currents caused by the pump made the channel more difficult for their barges to negotiate).

For shippers in Dutch ports on the North Sea, that means calculating how heavily they can load their barges for a journey that could take them as far as the Swiss Alps.

In exchange the Haitians had lost two of their barges and a great many casualties.

The 350 Japanese troops who had been stranded on Goodenough Island after their barges were destroyed on 24 August were not rescued until late October.