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canal

A canal is a waterway (similar to a river) that is made by humans so that boats can travel it. Before the canal was made there was no way to travel between the two lakes.

canal

To canal is to build a man-made waterway. Let's canal through this mountain so we can connect the lakes by water.

canal

(astronomy) an indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels; they are now believed to be an optical illusion long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation provide (a city) with a canal (= duct, channel) a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance the tear duct was obstructed the alimentary canal poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs

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Simple sentences

The canal is clogged.
The Panama Canal connects the Atlantic with the Pacific.
This ship is too big to pass through the canal.
The ship went through the Suez Canal.
The treaty gave the United States a canal zone.
We passed through the Panama Canal.
The Panama Canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama.
The ear canal sends sound waves to the eardrum.
The completion of the Suez canal was a colossal achievement.
The ship passed through the Panama Canal.

Movie subtitles

The Yangtze was part of a vast waterway known as the Grand Canal that linked Hangzhou with Beijing 1,000 miles to the north.
The restoration and improvement of the canal was part of a plan to stimulate China's economy, masterminded by the formidable Ming emperor known as Yongle.
This is the Precious belt Bridge at Suzhou, with its 53 arches, one of the architectural marvels of the Grand canal.
The West's ascendancy was perfectly symbolised in June 1 842, when British ships sailed up the Yangtze to the Grand Canal in retaliation for the destruction of opium by a zealous Chinese official.
The old headquarters of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank used to be described as the most luxurious building between the Suez canal and the Bering Strait.
That's a gondola going through the Panama canal.
Shall we go out in a gondola on the Grand Canal and find a serenata?
I wouldn't care if we were in the Suez Canal.
Only no matter where you come up under that shed across the vacant ground as you planned or where the sewer comes into the canal, you'll find a few bayonets waiting for you.
Do you think if it hadn't been for that war of Mr. Kane's we'd have the Panama Canal?
The Genoa Maru, sailing tonight for Yokohama by way of New York, the Panama Canal and Honolulu.
Through the Panama Canal to Los Angeles and then back home by train.
Were you stationed long in the Canal Zone?
We don't know how soon or what side of the pot but they'll involve the canal, and that's where you come in.
He's going to Egypt with Father Enfantin to build a canal linking the Mediterranean to the Red Sea. A canal?
That's a gondola going through the Panama canal. In Venice.
By tomorrow it'll be Grand Canal gossip.
Where are you going? Keep those canal boats away from me.
Then we'll be able to sit once more in your garden by the canal.
You're going to Panama and dig another lock for the canal.
A new lock for the canal, you know.
When Teddy's working on the canal, you can't get his mind on anything else.
We let him dig the Panama Canal in the cellar.
General Goethals, inspect the canal.
The Panama Canal. And it just fits Mr. Spenalzo.
General Goethals was very pleased. He said the canal was just the right size.
A canal, somewhere in France.
In a beautiful village, by the canal was the house of a happy family.
Throughout the night, they dredged the canal.
The canal is so roundabout.
She'll jump in the canal.
Any place but the Canal one.
Miss Schmidt, we know he's somewhere across the canal in the Russian sector.
I mean, really, I own from 23rd Street all the way down to Canal.
Thanks for letting me in on your secret. that you own all the way from 23rd Street down to Canal.
Cross the canal and you'll be home.
I'll definitely return via Saint-Denis. from there, all the way along the canal.

News and current affairs

It is not just the reliability of the Suez Canal and oil exports that are now in doubt; decades of fixed strategic certainties must now be reexamined.
In the immediate aftermath of the October War of 1973, the Arab world rejoiced because the myth of Israeli invincibility had been shattered by Egypt's crossing of the Suez Canal and the Syrian offensive that swept across the Golan Heights.
But in 1973, after crossing the Suez Canal, Egyptian infantrymen by the thousand stood their ground unflinchingly against advancing Israeli battle tanks.
On October 16, 1973, ten days after Egypt's army surprised the Israelis by crossing the Suez Canal, Sharon turned defeat into victory by leading his own troops across the canal through a narrow gap in the Egyptian front.
Their reasoning was sound: The Israelis did not control even their own side of the canal, so they could not possibly reinforce the first wave of a few hundred men with a handful of tanks.
Rather than pulling their units back across the canal to chase the raiding Israelis, the Egyptian commanders believed that their forces could capture all of them by converging toward one another, thus closing the two-mile gap that Sharon had exploited.
They ordered Sharon to stop sending forces across the canal, and instead to widen the gap on the Israeli side.
Sharon did not obey, pleading communications difficulties while sending as many of his forces as possible across the canal.
Wars of conquest, territorial acquisition, continental surveying, and canal and then railroad subsidies were good for voters, immigrants, and pretty much everyone else except the outnumbered and outgunned Native Americans who got in the way.
Infrastructure, such as highways, bridges, and even the Kiel Canal, is crumbling after years of neglect.
Understanding Clausewitz's dictum that war is a continuation of politics by other means, Sadat had sent the Egyptian Army across the Suez Canal in order to unleash a peace process.
Modern central banking got its start in the collapse of the British canal boom of the early 1820's.
Although the British had 100,000 troops stationed near the Suez Canal at the time, they chose not to intervene.
Foreign policy during the Cold War, she says, was like steering within the Panama Canal; after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it was like steering within the English Channel - plenty of water on all sides, but land visible, too.
Positioned on the eastern bank of the Suez Canal, Israel's army was just over 100 kilometers from Cairo.
Among the middle-ranking, agricultural castes, some had high economic status due to improved agriculture, brought about by canal irrigation and commercialization.
Indeed, one of the first decisions taken by Egypt's interim government was to allow an Iranian vessel to cross into the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal for the first time in three decades.
Just as the rehabilitation of the Egyptian towns along the Suez Canal in the wake of the 1973 Yom Kippur war paved the way for an Israeli-Egyptian peace, a prosperous Gaza would serve the interests of all parties involved - beginning with Israel.
Given their strategic location, Sinai jihadis could easily be used by larger terrorist networks to target strategically vital locations, such as the Suez Canal.

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