NOUN
- the major waterway in Venice, Italy
- an inland waterway 1000 miles long in eastern China; extends from Tianjin in the north to Hangzhou in the south
How To Use Grand Canal In A Sentence
- It attracts the travelers for the Grand Canal and other historic sites.
- Upholstered screens evoke the ogee shape of windows on the Grand Canal. Rooms With a Viewpoint
- The painting depicts the Grand Canal, Venice, looking north from the Rialto Bridge.
- What my father and I came to realize was that the idea of professional acting training was never fully appreciated in Ireland," Ms. Ryan said over coffee this summer in the Grand Canal cultural quarter here, where the Lir a name inspired by a much-loved story from Irish folklore will be based, in a newly refurbished Trinity building that includes two theaters and rehearsal, design and dance studios. NYT > Home Page
- Sometimes gondoliers and sailors in costume were hired to ply the waters of the Grand Canal while musicians played on shore.
- The Grand Canal bustles with life: boats deliver vegetables, collect rubbish, and carry people to work.
- He was a larger-than-life character who went on to build a replica of Venice - including a Grand Canal, with gondolas - inside his new hotel, the Venetian.
- The rain pelted the steel roof and I wondered about the future of the grand canal, which has so far managed to weather almost 200 years of periodic economic storms. A Hundred Miles on the Erie Canal
- On a warm night, in a gondola off the Grand Canal, he popped the question.
- He sat down awkwardly and remained rigidly upright, glaring fixedly at the Turner interpretation of the Grand Canal facing him. MURKY SHALLOWS
