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Canoe in sentence

109 examples of Canoe in a sentence

When Western scientists would join Mau on the canoe and watch him go into the hull, it appeared that an old man was going to rest.
In fact, the hull of the canoe is the womb of the vessel.
And this is what he said: "The island is the canoe; the canoe, the island."
So in closing I would offer you this: The planet is our canoe, and we are the voyagers.
You'll notice that the legs are plywood legs and the canoe structure is still there.
I want to use it for a robot head or for a canoe to paddle down a river."
He was trembling when our boat approached, frightened it would run over his tiny canoe.
Here's Mr. Clean looking amorously at all the other Procter & Gamble products, and Procter & Gamble, you know, the statistic always cited is that Wal-Mart is their largest customer, and it's true, as one store, Wal-Mart buys 15 percent, thus 15 percent of Procter & Gamble's business is with Wal-Mart, but their largest market segment is something that they call "high frequency stores," which is all these tiny kiosks and the lady in the canoe and all these other businesses that exist in System D, the informal economy, and Procter & Gamble makes 20 percent of its money from that market segment, and it's the only market segment that's growing.
They were floating through the canals in a large canoe with a fitted-out generator for all of the community to enjoy.
We put some investments on the river that had originally been invested upon in the original MAPS, and now we are currently in the final stages of developing the finest venue in the world for the sports of canoe, kayak and rowing.
It's like the long hull of a canoe for speed over the water.
She is well trained, can be counted on, and shares the face and culture of her patients, and she deserves our support surely, because whether by subway, mule, or canoe, she is teaching us to walk the walk.
Before most kids are 12, they'll have been to Disney World more times than they've been in a canoe or camping under a starry sky.
And when I got in there with my canoe, what did I find, but people.
These are sailors who in the darkness, in the hull of the vessel, can distinguish as many as 32 different sea swells moving through the canoe at any one point in time, distinguishing local wave disturbances from the great currents that pulsate across the ocean, that can be followed with the same ease that a terrestrial explorer would follow a river to the sea.
Imagine you have a two-year-old who wakes up one morning with a fever, and you realize she could have malaria, and you know the only way to get her the medicine she needs would be to take her to the riverbed, get in a canoe, paddle to the other side and then walk for up to two days through the forest just to reach the nearest clinic.
So A.B. took Prince and his mother to the river, got in a canoe and paddled for four hours to get to the hospital.
But when A.B. wants to learn, he's got to jump back in that canoe and get to the training center.
But others have speculated that perhaps it was Pacific Islanders participating in championship canoe races that were held in Rio that year that brought it in.
The formidable Viking longship had its origins in the humble dugout canoe, or log boat.
Benki comes from a village so remote up in the Amazon that to get there, either you have to fly and land on water, or go by canoe for several days.
I enjoy seeing the clothes that were worn at this time and hearing the same old urban legends such as was told on the overnight canoe trip.
The entire scene involving the "overnight", from the canoe procession to the end of the trip, is precious, and Tripper's story about the homicidal maniac is urban legend right out of my youth.
When I went to camp the campers and counselors pulled similar stunts such as running underwear up the flag pole, canoe battles and boys raiding the girls cabin.
It is also notable for the little touches of insanity throughout the movie, especially when the dark, moody first half is replaced by a MUSICAL INTERLUDE of all things (as another user pointed out, one of the songs is dedicated to a character, Travis Crabtree, who paddles around in a canoe for a while, then... leaves, never to be seen again).
Burt Renyolds plays Lewis, the macho self appointed leader of a group of four friends on a canoe trip down a fictitious river before a dam is made, filling the whole wilderness in water.
Ronny Cox and Ned Beatty play as the novice adventurers, Drew and Bob respectively, joining in for the fun of a canoe trip.
The film basically opens up with the four driving into a small town while asking to find someone to drive their cars to the bottom of the river whilst they canoe the rapids and camp along the riverside.
The canoe trip that follows is expertly shot and it is from here the men fight against both human and nature's odds for survival.
The tension increases steadily throughout the canoe trip, and perseveres even after the final credits - the ending makes the significance of the characters' ordeals horrifically real.
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