Examples of canoe in a Sentence
Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 15 Nov. 2023
Old Mill Park also has a beach and a launching area for canoes and kayaks.
—Benjamin C Tankersley, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2023
Saar — a trailblazer of the Assemblage movement — acknowledges the influence that nature has had in her career, immersing viewers even further into the outdoors with emulated twilight, mesmerizing blue hues and a canoe.
—Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2023
There are two boat houses—a dry boat house/workshop and another with two slips and lifts—plus storage for kayaks, canoes, and other water toys.
—Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2023
In Tefé, a rural municipality in the northwestern Amazon, residents are crossing muddy stretches of lake bed on motorcycles and paddling canoes down narrow streams that were once rivers.
—Manuela Andreoni, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
Nonetheless, after a couple of days the two men fled by canoe at night, paddling to a nearby town.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2023
The Osa Peninsula in southwestern Costa Rica, the Skeleton Coast in Namibia, and to travel down the Zambezi river in a canoe.
—Olivia Morelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Oct. 2023
Head to Maui to watch Santa arrive on Wailea Beach by outrigger canoe — no sleighs or reindeer here.
—Teresa Bergen, Travel + Leisure, 14 Oct. 2023
Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 20 Sep. 2023
Now in his early 60s, he’s spent his life on the water, kayaking and canoeing down most of the rivers in Southwest Texas.
—Cat Cardenas, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
This late-twenties couple had stumbled into the Ozarks a week before and hadn’t stopped canoeing, fishing, and hiking.
—Mike Bezemek, Outside Online, 13 Apr. 2023
The ability for Huntsville residents to go kayaking or canoeing not far from where they are entertained by their favorite musical acts at the Orion Amphitheater is a little closer to reality.
—Scott Turner | , al, 6 Aug. 2023
Visitors to the park can enjoy surface and subsurface exploration, canoeing the Green River, hiking, camping, and horseback riding.
—Josh Laskin, Travel + Leisure, 1 Sep. 2023
Go canoeing or hiking, or just drive around and take tons of cool pics.
—Kristin Koch, Seventeen, 28 Aug. 2023
The area itself is chock-full of natural beauty and recreational activities, everything from kayaking and canoeing to paddle boarding and hiking.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 31 Aug. 2023
Thomas spent his summers fishing and canoeing with family.
—cleveland, 1 Aug. 2023
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Word History
Noun
French, from New Latin canoa, from Spanish, from Arawakan, of Cariban origin; akin to Carib kana:wa canoe
Noun
1555, in the meaning defined above
Verb
1794, in the meaning defined at transitive sense
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“Canoe.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/canoe. Accessed 7 Dec. 2023.
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