houseboat

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Recent Examples of houseboat This maze of lakes and islands hosts houseboats as well as celestial reflections, with auroras possible by dint of its location at 48 degrees north along the U.S.-Canada border. Jamie Carter, Space.com, 28 Aug. 2025 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. 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 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 See All Example Sentences for houseboat
Recent Examples of Synonyms for houseboat
Noun
  • Remembering the Ohio River's riverboat glory days.
    Rasputin Todd, Cincinnati Enquirer, 10 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Keep a distance from high profile vehicles such as trucks, buses and vehicles towing trailers.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Below, all the trailers released at NYCC so far.
    Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Leith returned me to shore in a motorboat.
    Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The couple and their family are shown on surfboards, motorboats, and kayaks.
    Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • My car has a 26-inch light bar on the bumper … even my RV has a 52-inch Nilight light bar mounted to it.
    Joe Salas October 09, New Atlas, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Lynn White outside her RV home.
    Angela Yang, NBC news, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • The home is on a lake where Schlapman spent much of her childhood, just an hour from her parents, who live in her grandparents' farmhouse in northeast Georgia, just across the state line.
    Eileen Finan, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
  • In this modern farmhouse entryway, a dark gray rug with a black and gray pattern keeps the space functional while contrasting the bright white walls and door and tying in the dark hardwood floors, wall hooks, and rustic bench.
    Maria Sabella, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Kelly’s father owned a pontoon boat that, in high school, had been off limits.
    David Wright Faladé, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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