7 sentences with 'canals'

Example sentences and phrases with the word canals and other words derived from it.

« Where they differed, however, was in their approach to trade. They built new roads and canals and encouraged long-distance trade throughout their lands. »
« They oversaw the construction of roads and canals useful to traders and derived much of their income from silk textiles. »
« Also, although canals had existed since ancient times, there was a great canal building boom in the second half of the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century. »
« But the planet Mars has numerous canals; if you look to the left you will see what could well be a system of canals designed by a daring urban architect, leading scientists to believe that they may have formed when environmental conditions on Mars were very different from today's, air pressure was higher and more water was available on the planet. »
« As the craters in the Martian canals indicate that they were formed between one hundred and three billion years ago, it is thought that this planet, now red and dry, had a more benevolent and humid climate two billion years ago.... two billion years ago. »
« An Austrian astronomer, Von Littrow, thought of digging geometrical canals in the Sahara desert, filling them with paraffin and setting them on fire. »
« Beginning around 600 CE, the Hohokam built an extensive irrigation system of canals to irrigate the desert and cultivate fields of corn, beans and squash. »

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