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as in riverboat
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as in trailer
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Recent Examples of houseboat
All three of those tenets are found within the one-bedroom, two-bath abode, which replaced an aging houseboat that had occupied the slip for decades.
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Tori Latham, Robb Report, 24 Aug. 2025
Fitzgerald began publishing fiction at age fifty-eight, and won the 1979 Booker Prize for her third novel Offshore, based on her experience living on a rundown houseboat in London.
—Jane Ciabattari
august 12, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025
Starting in Redding, a bustling city on the Sacramento River, travel north on 1-5 to Shasta Lake, the largest reservoir in California and a popular spot to rent a houseboat with friends.
—Jessie Beck, AFAR Media, 17 July 2025
Experience something new by sleeping in a former church built in 1904 or a houseboat anchored amidst cypress trees emerging from the open water.
—Kristy Christiansen, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2025
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Tori Latham, Robb Report, 24 Aug. 2025
Fitzgerald began publishing fiction at age fifty-eight, and won the 1979 Booker Prize for her third novel Offshore, based on her experience living on a rundown houseboat in London.
—Jane Ciabattari
august 12, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2025
Starting in Redding, a bustling city on the Sacramento River, travel north on 1-5 to Shasta Lake, the largest reservoir in California and a popular spot to rent a houseboat with friends.
—Jessie Beck, AFAR Media, 17 July 2025
Experience something new by sleeping in a former church built in 1904 or a houseboat anchored amidst cypress trees emerging from the open water.
—Kristy Christiansen, Southern Living, 6 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for houseboat
Noun
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My grandparents love to travel, and the next trip on their calendar is a riverboat cruise from Paris all around northern France.—
Melony Forcier,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Sep. 2025
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Dressed in a black hat, black bell-bottoms, and a jacket with turquoise accents, the Louisiana country singer gave a soulful, twangy reading of the riverboat tale, effortlessly commanding the crowd with just a few shimmies and finger points.—
Joseph Hudak,
Rolling Stone,
9 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Built in trailer form, the system can be transported easily and set up by just two people in 10 minutes.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Oct. 2025
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One strong gust of wind can be enough to flip one of these trailers onto its side.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Leith returned me to shore in a motorboat.—
Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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The couple and their family are shown on surfboards, motorboats, and kayaks.—
Lisa Lockwood,
Footwear News,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Choose your camping style and destination from more than 500 locations in North America and access tent sites, RV hookups, cabins, teepees, playgrounds, pools and a range of recreational facilities.—
Lynn O'Rourke Hayes,
Boston Herald,
28 Sep. 2025
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Bulldog Park, an off-campus RV park, offers more entry for various types of tailgating or picnicking, and it’s located around 10 to 15 minutes away from the stadium.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Powering over the horizon on my beloved center console powerboat and not wearing a shirt for long periods of time!—
Bill Springer,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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This weekend, the historic powerboat racing series returns to east Mission Bay for the 57th time.—
Bill Center,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Qian and her partner are renovating a farmhouse in the Portuguese countryside.—
Anniek Bao,
CNBC,
1 Oct. 2025
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In the play, Farrow played Sharon, a lonely Iowa woman – estranged from her adult son, divorced from her husband – who decides to take a boarder into her large farmhouse.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Kelly’s father owned a pontoon boat that, in high school, had been off limits.—
David Wright Faladé,
New Yorker,
28 Sep. 2025
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The result is what seems to be a cross between a catamaran and a giant fishing pontoon with a large open deck measuring 900 ft² (83 m²) that can handle standard shipping containers weighing up to 30 tonnes.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
28 Sep. 2025
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Both the Bay Bridge and Francis Scott Key Bridge are under limited restrictions, meaning no house trailers or empty box trailers are allowed to travel through, according to the Maryland Transportation Authority.—
Dan Belson,
Baltimore Sun,
14 Mar. 2023
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Burglary There was a burglary to a house trailer in the 7300 block of McCormick Boulevard on Jan. 8 in which an unknown person used a pry tool to pry open a door on a mobile trailer.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Feb. 2023
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“Houseboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/houseboat. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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