Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
canoes
IPA transcription: [kən'uz]
Usage examples
The canoes were not on the river bank.
They couldn't get across without canoes.
Our Santa Rosa canoes were about thirty feet long.
Now some twenty dugout canoes were surrounding the Nautilus.
At Santa Rosa we procured Indians and canoes for the Maranon.
Just then the dugout canoes drew nearer to the Nautilus, and a cloud of arrows burst over us.
They furnished three canoes, two for baggage and one covered with a palm-leaf awning for ourselves.
The Indians made camp as usual, the goods being brought from the canoes and piled up near the tents.
But the men unloaded the canoes and--'a desperate undertaking'--ran them down the rapids with light ballast.
"Well, we're on our way once more," remarked Tom as again they were in the canoes being paddled up the river.