How do you use Towboat in a sentence? See 5 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like tugboat or tug, plus the exact meaning.
Towboat meaning
- A tugboat.
- A squat powerful boat designed to push barges.
- A vessel constructed for being towed, such as a canal boat.
Using Towboat
- The main meaning on this page is: A tugboat. | A squat powerful boat designed to push barges. | A vessel constructed for being towed, such as a canal boat.
- Useful related words include: tugboat, tug, tower, boat.
- In the example corpus, towboat often appears in combinations such as: the towboat.
Context around Towboat
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 2 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Towboat
- In this selection, "towboat" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, italian, use, rescued and pushing stand out and add context to how "towboat" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include aboard the towboat as it and an italian towboat rescued more. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "towboat" sits close to words such as aadujeevitham, aani and aapp, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with towboat
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Odom slowed his towboat to a crawl and scoured the banks for a suitable spot. (15 words)
The crew live aboard the towboat as it travels along the inland river system or the intracoastal waterways. (18 words)
The captain and pilot steer the towboat, which pushes one or more barges held together with rigging, collectively called 'the tow'. (21 words)
An operation in which an Italian towboat rescued more than 100 people in the Mediterranean and returned them to may have been in breach of international law, the United Nations has said. (32 words)
Modern use Towboat pushing a barge on the Chicago River Barges are used today for low-value bulk items, as the cost of hauling goods by barge is very low. (30 words)
The captain and pilot steer the towboat, which pushes one or more barges held together with rigging, collectively called 'the tow'. (21 words)
Example sentences (5)
An operation in which an Italian towboat rescued more than 100 people in the Mediterranean and returned them to may have been in breach of international law, the United Nations has said.
Odom slowed his towboat to a crawl and scoured the banks for a suitable spot.
Modern use Towboat pushing a barge on the Chicago River Barges are used today for low-value bulk items, as the cost of hauling goods by barge is very low.
The captain and pilot steer the towboat, which pushes one or more barges held together with rigging, collectively called 'the tow'.
The crew live aboard the towboat as it travels along the inland river system or the intracoastal waterways.
Common combinations with towboat
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: