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Example sentences for "bottomed boats"

  • Shipments of produce from Illinois were usually made in flat-bottomed boats of fifteen tons burden.

  • The present writer, after going through the reports of our admiral stationed in the Downs, is convinced that our seamen felt a supreme contempt for the flat-bottomed boats when at sea.

  • Then the French general took possession of Axel and Terneuse, and began to prepare flat-bottomed boats for a descent on the island of Zealand.

  • This was the name by which the flat-bottomed boats of the flotilla were known at Paris.

  • As soon as the ships ceased firing, our boats, of which I commanded one, were ordered to aid in towing the flat-bottomed boats on shore.

  • They formed the first division of flat-bottomed boats, having on board a force of 4500 men, under the immediate command of General Howe.

  • Some of the flat-bottomed boats which, under convoy of a galley, endeavoured to escape from the Seine, and creep along the coast to Brest, were cut off at Cape Bassin and driven on shore.

  • Flat-bottomed boats, such as were afterwards to reappear on a much more imposing scale in the Napoleonic wars, were being built all along the Channel.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bottomed boats" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about sixteen; being about; bottomed boat; bottomed boats; bottomed chair; concave mirror; eight cubits; eyes went; feet above the present; good books; good instance; great river; married lady; opera buffa; paper birch; procuring food; rarely seen; sent forward; small amount; steep them; thick cloth; this family; this occasion; tropical forest