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steamboat

[ UK /stˈiːmbə‍ʊt/ ]
[ US /ˈstimˌboʊt/ ]
NOUN
  1. a boat propelled by a steam engine

How To Use steamboat In A Sentence

  • At one time, over 300 paddlewheel steamboats plied the Delta.
  • Before the advent of the steamboat in 1818, it could take as long as a year for a flatboat to travel from New Orleans to Nashville.
  • Keelboat and steamboat navigation was always treacherous, and with the arrival of railroads, river transportation became unimportant.
  • Old photographs of the Moscow subway stations, the city of Ufa and a steamboat cruise. All different and all moving.
  • The Library of Congress has posted this amazing Web exhibit of the dawn of American animation, 21 films and two fragments of animation from 1900 to 1921 (note that there isn't any film available from after Steamboat Willie, since everything from the birth of Mickey onward is still in copyright). Boing Boing: August 18, 2002 - August 24, 2002 Archives
  • Robert Fulton's proposal to build a steamboat was at first regarded as fantastic.
  • Inside the museum, all manner of detailed models, from submarines, steamboats and trawlers to battleships, tugs and cobles, competed for best model in the various classes.
  • The river steamboats are designed in 19th century format with stylish furnishings - an impressive mirrored and brass staircase and a lounge with a two-storied glass rear wall for a glimpse of the giant paddlewheel.
  • Now, the river was as busy as the land, lights swimming hither and thither; steamboats with ropes of tiny stars bespangling their dark bulk and a white electric glare in the bow, low boats with lights that sent wavering spear-heads into the shadow beneath. Stories of a western town
  • I had an economics course with a fool named “Steamboat” Fulton, whose stock and trade was lyrical rant about the twin divinities named Supply and Demand. Matthew Yglesias » Meeting Obama’s College Attainment Goals
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