Definition: 1. A long straight passage dug in the ground and filled with water for boats and ships to travel along; a smaller passage used for carrying water to fields, crops, etc. 2. A bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance. 3. Long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation. 4. A tube inside the body through which liquid, food or air can pass.
Use 'canal' in a sentence:
1. You might hope that the columnists of this article can leisurely cross the Panama Canal by steamship.
2. It was a massive project, easily surpassing the scale of such previous human endeavors as the Panama Canal.
3. She wants to cruise the canals of France in a barge.
4. The Panama Canal joins two oceans.
5. You can use the canal bus or a water taxi to cruise the "Venice of the North".
6. An intriguing variant to pipelines would be to carry the water using the existing system of canals.
7. He piloted the boat through the canal.
8. The canal is open to shipping.
9. The result was that the engine ended up at the bottom of the canal.
10. The canal has proved useful to the county in many ways.
11. The best place to catch fish on a canal is close to a lock.
12. He had tied the dog to one of the trees near the canal.
13. Canals have been built to take water to the desert.
14. Two hydraulic steel gates are raised, so as to seal the gondola off from the water in the canal basin.
15. You might also want to jump out of the canal bus at the Museum Quarter and start walking.
16. They were on their way to the Shropshire Union Canal when their van was involved in a collision with a car.
17. The Panama Canal connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
18. The two towns are linked by a canal.
19. Steam also promised to eliminate a transportation problem not fully solved by either canal boats or turnpikes.
20. These restored houses overhang a system of quiet canals.
21. The canal is blocked.
22. Small blockages or collapses of the canal would choke the intricate irrigation networks.
23. It is the oldest bridge across the canal, and was the dividing line between the districts of San Marco and San Polo.
24. I am, unfortunately, thrown into a canal by a woman fat of body and very evil-minded.
25. Next came the Erie Canal, an enormous project in its day, spanning about 350 miles.
26. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye.
27. The city is criss-crossed with canals.
28. Many canals were built along map grid lines.
29. Long-mothballed projects like widening the Suez Canal are being dusted off.
30. Amsterdam also has a good canal system.
31. The canal is navigable throughout the year.
32. Hearing can be affected by ear wax blocking the ear canal.
33. James Brindley is recognized as one of the leading early canal engineers.
34. The Rialto Bridge is one of the four bridges spanning the Grand Canal.
35. The canal was built to connect Sheffield with the Humber estuary.
36. The road and the canal are parallel to each other.
37. Egypt has lost out on revenues from the Suez Canal.
38. His decapitated body was found floating in a canal.
39. How many man-days will be needed to construct this irrigation canal?
40. The canal was built between 1793 and 1797.
41. Boats travel under this wall via a tunnel, then through the locks, and finally on to the Union Canal.
42. They dragged the canal for the missing children.
43. There was even an elaborate canal system and a lot of very intricate jewelry.
44. This was before the steam locomotive, and canal building was at its height.
45. He would attach a cable around the chassis of the car and winch it up on to the canal bank.
46. The rough rock walls were like the sides of a deep canal.
47. The city is dissected by a network of old canals.
48. The road and the canal run parallel to each other.
49. The arrival of canals was of great value to many industries.
