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How to use canal in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Canal means an artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation. Example: “The mouth, oesophagus, stomach, and intestines are part of the human alimentary canal.”

Examples of canal by meaning

nounA tubular channel within the body or within a plant.

  • The fossilised jaw of T. trusleri has a huge canal running through it and that’s believed to have carried all the nerve and related tissue needed for the sense of electroception.2022 March 29, Karen McGee, “Stunning breakthrough: the platypus and echidnas came from the South Pole”, in Australian Geographic

verbTo travel along a canal by boat.

  • Near Rotterdam we canalled by Delfthaven.1905, William Yoast Morgan, A Journey of a Jayhawker, page 211

More sentences with canal

  • The mouth, oesophagus, stomach, and intestines are part of the human alimentary canal.From the entry alimentary canal
  • Otic preparations are used to treat infections of the ear canal.From the entry otic
  • In many vertebrates, the neurenteric canal connects the medullary tube and the primitive intestine.From the entry neurenteric
  • Two hours of root canal surgery – that sounds like a barrel of fun.From the entry barrel of fun
  • A man, a plan, a canal — Panama!From the entry panama
  • The road runs parallel to the canal.From the entry parallel
  • The area by the canal is the underbelly of town – not something you’d see in the guidebooks.From the entry underbelly
  • The cross-country course passes the canal.From the entry course
  • My house backs onto the canal.From the entry back onto
  • The Russian command must overcome the canal and advance on its western bank.2024 July 8th, “Reporting from Ukraine” (channel name), 07 Jul: Seriously? Russians Lose an Elite VDV Brigade for 20 Five-Story Buildings…. From the entry Kalynivka
  • The pot, at the other end of the alimentary canal, remains a transgressive topic.2023 June 26, Dwight Garner, “Let’s Talk About the Bathroom Scene”, in The New York Times Book Review, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry pot
  • Looking around, I felt a touch of kenopsia; the canal seemed much emptier.2022, David Moscow, John Moscow, From Scratch: Adventures in Harvesting, Hunting, Fishing, and Foraging on a Fragile Planet, unnumbered page. From the entry kenopsia
  • Lateral semicircular canal function was also evaluated by vestibulonystagmography after bithermal caloric stimulation.2015 July 18, “Lateral Semicircular Canal Asymmetry in Idiopathic Scoliosis: An Early Link between Biomechanical, Hormonal and…. From the entry vestibulonystagmography
  • Proctosigmoidoscopy is endoscopic examination of the lining of the distal sigmoid colon, rectum and rectal canal.2014, Gayle McKenzie, Clinical Companion: Medical-Surgical Nursing, page 228. From the entry proctosigmoidoscopy
  • Then irrigation canals were extended from the already irrigated areas close to the city.2014, Thomas F. Glick, Steven Livesey, Faith Wallis, Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine: An Encyclopedia, Routledge, →ISBN. From the entry marjal
  • It was going to take muscle to pluck Miss Agnes out of the canal.2013, John D. MacDonald, The Long Lavender Look, page 15. From the entry muscle
  • Horses were easily startled and might bolt off the tow path or into the canal itself.2012, John H. White, Jr., Wet Britches and Muddy Boots, page 171. From the entry runaway
  • Anterior segment tumors traverse aqueous outflow pathways, preexisting emissarial canals, or perforations in the cornea.2012, Aparna Ramasubramanian, Carol L Shields, Retinoblastoma, →ISBN, page 216. From the entry emissarial
  • With the Oxford canal at the bottom of his garden, regular canoeing excursions gave him enormous pleasure.2011 July 31, Bob Woffinden, The Guardian. From the entry gave
  • I'm not sure if I'll need a root canal or just a filling.2009, Wendy Conklin, Differentiation Strategies for Language Arts, →ISBN, page 144. From the entry dentophobia
  • I started working on the canal when I was only 14.2006 October, Mal Edwards, “Money for Old Rope”, in BBC Wales, archived from the original on 21 Apr 2021. From the entry lengthsman
  • The floor of this canal bulges laterally to form a spoon-shaped hook, the cochleariform process.2005, Andras Csillag, Atlas of the Sensory Organs, Humana, page 5. From the entry cochleariform
  • We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water.2004, Jeffrey S[tuart] Kargel, “[The Future Living Mars] Breathe easy”, in Mars – A Warmer, Wetter Planet (Springer-Praxis Books in…. From the entry Quaylism
  • On the canal is a packet boat with a few passengers visible on top.2003, Janey Levy, The Erie Canal, page 22. From the entry packet boat
  • The snake bridge allowed the horse to cross the canal without unhitching the towline.2003, Hadfield, Charles, British Canals: The Inland Waterways of Britain, page 112. From the entry snake bridge
  • The lateral canal is first bluelined, then opened with a cutting burr.2001, Newton J. Coker, Herman A. Jenkins, Atlas of Otologic Surgery, page 456. From the entry blueline
  • She walked back and forth along the canal three times and wiped her eyes again.1999, Ch'ing-wen Cheng, edited by Pang-yuan Chi, Three-Legged Horse, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 127. From the entry P'ing-ting
  • Bleeding, products of conception in the cervical canal or cervical pathology (e.g. ectopion) should be excluded.1998, Progress in obstetrics and gynaecology, volume 13, page 312. From the entry ectopion
  • The Kosi canal system has become defunct due to siltation and nonmaintenance.1998, Kedar Nath Prasad, Dimensions of Development: Analysis of an Underdeveloped State, page 242. From the entry nonmaintenance
  • In the pyloric canal, muscular ridges are more fixed than elsewhere and produce quite a labyrinthine surface.1996, Venkataraman Srinivasan, André Dubois, “Non-Human Primates”, in Steen Lindkær Jensen, Hans Gregerson, Mohammad Hosein Shokouh-Amin…. From the entry labyrinthine
  • This could include mending roads and streets, constructure of drainage canals etc.1991, K. Sivadasan Pillai, Relevance of Peace Education, page 85. From the entry constructure
  • In bone, they are either in the medullary canal or occasionally transarticularly in an adjacent metaphysis .1990, Narayan Sundaresan, Tumors of the Spine: Diagnosis and Clinical Management, page 25. From the entry transarticularly
  • The canal connecting the neurocoel and the enteron is called the neurenteric canal (Fig. 5.47C).1989, S. N. Prasad, Vasantika Kashyap, A Textbook of Vertebrate Zoology, →ISBN, page 248. From the entry neurocoel
  • And all the canals and looking-glass mansions, in their courtly but firm way, were saying Net too.1983, Colin Thubron, “Leningrad”, in Among the Russians, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, page 74. From the entry net
  • Numerous contestants gathered to gluttonly gorge their alimentary canal with as many burgers as possible.1973, “Burger Bust Gathers Campus Gluttons”, in DeSoto, Memphis, Tenn.: Memphis State University, Activities section, page 58. From the entry gluttonly
  • The palpebral pump exerts positive pressure on the fluid in the retropalpebral canal.1971, Everett R. Veirs, editor, The Lacrimal System: Proceedings, page 99. From the entry retropalpebral
  • This retropalpebral canal exists only during the short phase of complete eyelid closure.1971, Everett R. Veirs, editor, The Lacrimal System: Proceedings, page 99. From the entry retropalpebral
  • The prince had the two old canals of the Wu kings widened, deepened, and lined with rock.[1967, Lyn Harrington, “Sui—"The Son of a Talented Father Shows Talent"”, in The Grand Canal of China, Rand McNally & Company, →LCCN…. From the entry Qiantang

Meaning of canal

  1. noun An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.
  2. noun A tubular channel within the body or within a plant.
  3. noun One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars; see Martian canals.

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Questions about canal in a sentence

How do you use canal in a sentence?
Canal is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The mouth, oesophagus, stomach, and intestines are part of the human alimentary canal.”
What is a short sentence with canal?
“My house backs onto the canal.”
What does canal mean?
Canal means an artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation.

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