Sentence examples for wide boats from inspiring English sources

Although the canal was originally designed to be a narrow canal with narrow locks for boats 7 feet wide, in 1794 an agreement was reached with the Leeds and Liverpool Canal company to create a link near Red Moss near Horwich, so broad locks were built to accommodate the 14 feet wide boats using that canal.

An immaculate boucle sheath dress, with a wide boat-shaped neckline and dropped waist, it came in a shade of baby blue that would look saccharine if the outline were not so simple.

Peduncle 6 25 cm long, 0.2 cm across, sparsely red puberulous or glabrous; bracts elliptic, 0.7 cm long, 0.3 cm wide, boat-shaped, red, sparsely ciliate, eventually deciduous.

Inflorescences axillary, dichasial cymes branched 3 5 times; peduncle 9.5 16 cm long, subglabrous; bracts and bracteoles caducous, reddish, oblong to ovate, ca. 0.8 cm long, 0.25 0.4 cm wide, boat-shaped, margin sparsely shortly fimbriate, bracteoles similar but smaller.

Inflorescences axillary, dichasial cymes, arising directly from rhizome, branched 3 4 times; peduncle 5 13 cm long, tomentose; bracts and bracteoles caducous, yellowish, bracts narrowly ovate, 1 1.2 cm long, 0.4-0.6 cm wide, boat-shaped, veins reddish, margin fimbriate, bracteoles oblong, ca. 0.3 cm long, 0.1 cm wide.

Inflorescences terminal or axillary on upper nodes, cymes dichasial, branched 3 4 times; peduncle 8 12 cm long, tomentose or subglabrous; bracts and bracteoles caducous, reddish, bracts ovate, ca. 1.8 cm long, 0.6 0.9 cm wide, boat-shaped, veins crimson, margin denticulate or ciliate, bracteoles similar but smaller.

Inflorescences arising directly from rhizome, dichasial cymes branched 4 6 times; peduncle 15 38 cm long, tomentose; bracts at cyme base pale green, ovate, ca. 1 cm long, 0. 5 cm wide, boat-shaped, veins reddish, margin fimbriate, bracteoles on upper nodes similar but gradually smaller.

-- N. M. C., Newtown, Conn .A. Narrowboat excursions, popular in England since the 1960's, are an excellent way to see the British countryside at a leisurely pace, and there are now more than 300 companies renting the seven-foot-wide boats.

All crews will sail in AC45s, although when 2017 comes longer and wider boats are expected to be 25%-30%-30%ter.

People from 11 to 80 are signing up for learn to row courses every day and the new wider boats that are part of our Explore Rowing participation programme are proving to be a great hit with beginners.

This agreement required significant design changes to allow the canal to carry the wider boats used on the broad gauge Leeds and Liverpool Canal, which included a change to broad locks.