How to Use flatboat in a Sentence

flatboat

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• Hundreds of thousands of bales of cotton arrived on flatboats—until the railroad took over—from the vast plantations up river to the north.
  — Gully Wells, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2018
• Hugo and Helena’s Floating Theatre, a flatboat full of quirky drama queens, takes needy May in, no questions asked.
  — Jean Zimmerman, New York Times, 14 July 2017
• Workers on flatboats could barely pass under the railroad bridge at Broadway.
  — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 28 Aug. 2017
• The wooden flatboat uses the simplest of technology (and whatever parts are handy) to turn a river into a highway.
  — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 29 July 2022
• There’s plenty of Gulf of Mexico beach camping on the park’s west coast, and much of the park is only accessible by canoe, kayak, or flatboat, so backcountry campers will be rewarded with solitude like few other places left in the U.S.
  — Outside Online, 13 May 2019
• In this suspenseful novel, May Bedloe, a young seamstress for a theater company that travels the Ohio River on a flatboat, becomes involved in ferrying infants born into bondage from one side of the river to the other.
  — New York Times, 20 July 2017
• The German immigrants arrived in Kentucky on a flatboat in 1794, according to various bourbon history sites, and trace their distilling ancestry to a farm in Bardstown and in Louisville.
  — Grace Schneider, The Courier-Journal, 28 Aug. 2020
• Guiding the clumsy flatboats calls for expert navigation.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2019
• An adventure historian builds a 19th-century flatboat and sails it down the Mississippi River.
  — Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2022
• Portland was originally this river town community, a maritime river community, all about the river trade, steamboats, flatboats.
  — Nancy Stearns Theiss, The Courier-Journal, 29 Sep. 2017

Last Updated: 17 Aug 2024