VERB
  1. provide (a city) with a canal
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How To Use canalize In A Sentence

  • The river is canalised through this section of Parkhurst, and the walls are over four metres high in places.
  • Some of the endothelial cells formed uncanalized cords.
  • Avenues of approach tend to canalize the enemy due to the parallel ridges through which he must move.
  • Over the years the river has been canalised and the banks have been made more robust.
  • A great deal of sexual energy can, of course, be canalized or "sublimated" into other things: art, music, intense religious faith, and so on. Archive 2009-07-19
  • A tactical minefield is one which would block an enemy's advance and canalize his movement towards a ‘killing area’ observed by the defending force.
  • They have grown up on the wetlands that have formed in former pools and ponds since the Tisza was canalised and its floods brought under control in the 19th century.
  • Today this stream is canalised, but in winter the ditch still holds much water; over a metre impeded our survey in April and May.
  • In his review of the various factors affecting the evolutionary process, anthropologist Melvin Konner concludes: "There are no intrinsic driving factors in evolution, but there are intrinsic constraints and canalized paths along which either evolution or development may more easily proceed" "The Evolution of Childhood," Harvard Press, 2010, p. 59, italics in original. Matt J. Rossano: Evolution: Is God Just Playing Dice?
  • The bocage, low-lying country with high hedgerows, offered insufficient routes of advance and canalized American movements, which the Germans easily countered.
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