Explore Towboats through 2 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Towboats meaning
plural of towboat
Using Towboats
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of towboat
Context around Towboats
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 0 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Towboats
- In this selection, "towboats" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 19 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, pushing and travel stand out and add context to how "towboats" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include these towboats travel between and towing or towboats pushing them. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "towboats" sits close to words such as aabb, aabria and aacha, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with towboats
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
These towboats travel between ports and are also called line-haul boats. (12 words)
Flat-bottomed boats built to transport heavy goods, most barges are not self-propelled and need to be moved by tugboats towing or towboats pushing them. (26 words)
Flat-bottomed boats built to transport heavy goods, most barges are not self-propelled and need to be moved by tugboats towing or towboats pushing them. (26 words)
These towboats travel between ports and are also called line-haul boats. (12 words)
Example sentences (2)
Flat-bottomed boats built to transport heavy goods, most barges are not self-propelled and need to be moved by tugboats towing or towboats pushing them.
These towboats travel between ports and are also called line-haul boats.