canoed

• past participle

  past participle

  A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.

  of canoe.
  canoe

  noun

  any of various slender, open boats, tapering to a point at both ends, propelled by paddles or sometimes sails and traditionally formed of light framework covered with bark, skins, or canvas, or formed from a dug-out or burned-out log or logs, and now usually made of aluminum, fiberglass, etc.
• past tense form

  past tense

  Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.

  of canoe.
  canoe

  noun

  any of various slender, open boats, tapering to a point at both ends, propelled by paddles or sometimes sails and traditionally formed of light framework covered with bark, skins, or canvas, or formed from a dug-out or burned-out log or logs, and now usually made of aluminum, fiberglass, etc.

Example Sentences

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canoed

The time they canoed together on the lake in New Mexico.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2024

Garwood, who has canoed the length of the Mississippi River solo, an odyssey that lasted 84 days, has a deep reverence for his home ground, and the winter that is part of a Minnesotan’s identity.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024

Some people canoed to the Cavendish Baptist Church in Vermont, which had turned into a shelter while volunteers made cookies for firefighters working on rescues.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 10, 2023

One of Douglas Bruce’s favorite memories of his son was when he was about 10, and they canoed the Boundary Waters in northeast Minnesota, near the Canadian border.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2022

More than a century later the French explorer La Salle canoed down the Mississippi.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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