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How to use the word canoe in a Sentence?

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Typically, if a hippo is going to be attacking, you’ll see it coming way before. There will be that bow wave. … If you slap the water, the percussion 99.9 times out of 100 will turn the hippo, if you’re in a canoe and a hippo knocks you in the water, get away from the canoe. The hippo is going for this big shape, getting it off its territory.

Paul Templer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was amazed when a 1,200-year-old canoe was uncovered last year, but this discovery of a canoe dating back to 1000 BC is just extraordinary.

Tony Evers

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Finding an additional historically significant canoe in Lake Mendota is truly incredible and unlocks invaluable research and educational opportunities to explore the technological, cultural, and stylistic changes that occurred in dugout canoe design over 3,000 years.

James Skibo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There goes your f#*king canoe!

Marcia

added by anonymous
3 years ago

Starting last year- since my husband got diagnosed -Ive been on a strange journey. Paddling a canoe in a stormy sea. My boys are in the back, scared but preoccupied. Sometimes the waves are smaller and easier to navigate, some days I lose my paddle and waves threaten to overwhelm. But I know my purpose is to get myself and my kids to safety, to the beach.

Paulina Porizkova

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We mapped out the travels of the canoe through the Great Lakes, a friend of Brenda's made the boats for us and our classes painted Brenda Schell and added the message to the bottom. On our end of the year field trip for our Duluth unit we stopped at Brighton Beach to launch the boats.

Bonnie Fritch

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I did a lot of canoe tripping earlier on. I was on 10 trips, and I would get the feel of the forest and the wilderness, you know, that I always knew was in my soul to begin with.

Gordon Lightfoot

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

You can't bring a motorboat on a lake, but you can bring a canoe. You can't go to a bunch of stores, but you can buy marijuana.

Scott Hagerstrom

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

They got into a canoe, intending simply to retrieve the ball, and somehow got pushed by wind or tide into the open bay, about 30 minutes later they were spotted by an onlooker from land, who saw them far out from shore, and called the police. After that last sighting, they were not seen again. The Coast Guard recovered their canoe, which was capsized and miles away, at approximately 6:30( Thursday) evening.

Gideon McKean

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

If the water does come up, I do have a canoe. And I'll have friends pick me up at the church so I can row around the corner and to the church and go wherever I need to go.

Frank Elliott of Jackson

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I have enough trouble paddling my own canoe. But I do agree with Mrs. Trump that -- and I have suggested before to the White House -- that if the President would tweet a little bit less, it wouldn't cause brain damage.

Louisiana GOP Sen. John Kennedy

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I don't know what I would have done if I had come by in a canoe or something, but looking from it above on the University Avenue bridge I didn't feel too threatened.

Land Management staffer Craig McCaa

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

That river was not used by adventurers in a canoe ... We ended up breaking apart seven of them, deliverance.

Burt Reynolds

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I was two days and one night with the other three in the canoe and the sun kills. Without water it is even more difficult. My skin is split all over, i want to believe that the rest (of the crew) is alive because one cannot give up hope, but it is difficult to survive in such conditions.

Sabio Robles Lerian

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

You wonder why I am worried about ASC and what they are delivering to the Australian taxpayer. Do you wonder why I wouldn't trust them to build a canoe? let's get real here ... This is a professional program that is about national security, and we will take the advice of the service chiefs, not somebody who is looking for a job.

David Johnston

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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