6 sentences with 'canoe'
Example sentences and phrases with the word canoe and other words derived from it.
• « Her father, a cruel man, decided to kill her and during a canoe trip he cut off her fingers and legs and threw the corpse into the sea. »
• « It was August 17, 1996, the last of a nine-day canoe trip the family had taken through the rivers and lakes of Algonquin Provincial Park. »
• « They decided they would spend their last night in the open. The clearing where they camped, accessible only by canoe, was covered with pine needles. »
• « They had left the car at the ranger station, from which they were 10 miles of water and two stretches of walking with the canoe on their backs. »
• « According to Maori, the first Polynesian explorer to reach New Zealand was Kupe, who traveled across the Pacific in a Polynesian-style voyaging canoe. It is thought Kupe reached New Zealand at Hokianga Harbour, in Northland, about 1070 years ago. »
• « Maori as a people were known amongst themselves by their Iwi (Tribal) affiliations which often reflected the particular 'Waka' (or canoe) the individual could trace his oral history or lineage back to. Inter-marriage between Iwi was a way of strengthening alliances between various tribal groupings. »