Get to know Houseboat better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like barge or hoy.
Houseboat meaning
A vessel, such as a barge, used as a dwelling.
Using Houseboat
- The main meaning on this page is: A vessel, such as a barge, used as a dwelling.
- Useful related words include: barge, flatboat, hoy, lighter.
- In the example corpus, houseboat often appears in combinations such as: the houseboat, to houseboat, houseboat on.
Context around Houseboat
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 14 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Houseboat
- In this selection, "houseboat" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, stinky, evacuate, traditional, caught, cruises and becomes stand out and add context to how "houseboat" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a houseboat caught fire and a houseboat resident in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "houseboat" sits close to words such as abbeys, abundances and aced, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with houseboat
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A houseboat caught fire early Tuesday afternoon on Paddlewheel Park. (10 words)
You might consider renting a houseboat together or a beach condo in Mexico. (13 words)
Rent a traditional houseboat and cruise along the tranquil backwaters, surrounded by lush greenery and swaying palms. (17 words)
As I cook pasta for my teenage daughters on the vessel's four-burner gas stove-top, I'm keeping a lazy eye on proceedings on the houseboat's wall-mounted television when my 15-year-old, usually superglued to her Iphone, suddenly gets excited. (45 words)
Voyageurs National Park, a water-based park on the Canadian border best known for its houseboat vacation opportunities, is also a hiking destination worth the drive with nearly 30 miles of trails to suit anyone’s desired distance and difficulty level. (41 words)
Add in the ample hiking trails and thousands of people that come to houseboat on the water every year, and it's easy to see why Shuswap has done so well in the competition. (34 words)
Alappuzha: Serene backwaters, beautiful beaches, and houseboat cruises along the rustic waters of Kerala – can it get better for a Taurus? (21 words)
What makes this houseboat unconventional is it's been modeled to look like a pirate ship, complete with masts, skeletons, portholes, and more! (23 words)
Example sentences (20)
Add in the ample hiking trails and thousands of people that come to houseboat on the water every year, and it's easy to see why Shuswap has done so well in the competition.
A houseboat caught fire early Tuesday afternoon on Paddlewheel Park.
Alappuzha: Serene backwaters, beautiful beaches, and houseboat cruises along the rustic waters of Kerala – can it get better for a Taurus?
As I cook pasta for my teenage daughters on the vessel's four-burner gas stove-top, I'm keeping a lazy eye on proceedings on the houseboat's wall-mounted television when my 15-year-old, usually superglued to her Iphone, suddenly gets excited.
Further investigations revealed that Thomson owned a houseboat at Fleetwood, near Blackpool, bought with the proceeds of his crimes.
The 33-year-old shares how she went about buying her houseboat – which is moored in Cambridgeshire – and how much it costs to live there now.
This dad has to be able to bark orders, tie knots, and know what to do if (when) the houseboat becomes high-centered on a surprise patch of red rock.
What makes this houseboat unconventional is it's been modeled to look like a pirate ship, complete with masts, skeletons, portholes, and more!
While Otis was in the Bay area for Monterey, he stayed on a houseboat in Sausalito, and started a song about watching the ships come and go.
You might consider renting a houseboat together or a beach condo in Mexico.
Currently, the only serviced moorings for houseboat living is in Sallins in Kildare, at Shannon Harbour, and also Grand Canal Dock in Dublin.
Listen to them talk about his “stinky” houseboat, Dale getting stung by bees, his strange superstitions, and more below.
Marine Rescue Point Danger and other emergency services responded to a houseboat that needed assistance on the Tweed River at Murwillumbah just after 9am Monday.
Michael Jones runs Luxury Afloat, a houseboat rental service in Brooklyn, north of Sydney, and recently acquired the nearby Dolphin Boatshed Marina.
On Wednesday, fire and rescue teams could be seen wading through flood water at the site to evacuate houseboat residents in a rubber dinghy, after a path connecting boats to the shore was submerged.
Rent a traditional houseboat and cruise along the tranquil backwaters, surrounded by lush greenery and swaying palms.
Voyageurs National Park, a water-based park on the Canadian border best known for its houseboat vacation opportunities, is also a hiking destination worth the drive with nearly 30 miles of trails to suit anyone’s desired distance and difficulty level.
A houseboat resident in Hackney Wick, London, has urged people not to use canal towpaths for exercise amid government warnings to follow social distancing rules.
He also has his future plans laid out before him – setting up a “-hospital” inside a houseboat for even better services.
Mayor Terry Rysz says, like other tourist towns, people are being asked not to come to the Houseboat Capital of Canada.
Common combinations with houseboat
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the houseboat 4×
- to houseboat 2×
- houseboat on 2×
- their houseboat 2×
- houseboat and 2×
- houseboat that 2×