barge

How To Use barge In A Sentence

• Appropriately, he spends most of his days on tramp steamers, skiffs and barges.
• But one day he disturbed her privacy and barged into her room, presumably to force more work on her, while she had it out.
• There's no point throwing a tantrum if the promised treasure wreck turns out to be a wreck-shaped boulder or a manky old barge.
• On no night did I see more than forty or fifty who might be said to be "soused"; on no night did I see more than a dozen or fifteen who had to be thrown into the accommodation barge with the "dead ones," the helpless ones who were so far gone that they had to be carried up the sides of their ships from the barge which made the last rounds of the fleet. The U-boat hunters
• Two Doggett Coat and Badge-winners, both watermen resident in Greenwich, came to blows over which should row the Royal Barge. COFFIN ON THE WATER
• At the end of the time he was out of money but was befriended by the captain of a luxury tourist canal barge who offered him a two month job as a deckhand.
• They sank the barge by making a hole in the bottom.
• That bridges and barges were being destroyed to impede their progress. Man of Honour
• They paused a while to let a fleet of barges, packed with city dignitaries, sweep by as stately as swans.
• The bridge was a line of old barges that had been crudely tied together, the deck a mishmash of welded patches of dented rusting metal.