How to Use flatboat in a Sentence

flatboat

noun

• Workers on flatboats could barely pass under the railroad bridge at Broadway.
  — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 2017-08-28
• Hundreds of thousands of bales of cotton arrived on flatboats—until the railroad took over—from the vast plantations up river to the north.
  — Gully Wells, WSJ, 2018-12-12
• Guiding the clumsy flatboats calls for expert navigation.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 2019-02-16
• Hugo and Helena’s Floating Theatre, a flatboat full of quirky drama queens, takes needy May in, no questions asked.
  — Jean Zimmerman, New York Times, 2017-07-14
• An adventure historian builds a 19th-century flatboat and sails it down the Mississippi River.
  — Washington Post, 2022-08-16
• There’s plenty of Gulf of Mexico beach camping on the park’s west coast, and much of the park is only accessible by canoe, kayak, or flatboat, so backcountry campers will be rewarded with solitude like few other places left in the U.S.
  — Outside Online, 2019-05-13