houseboat
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houseboats
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Nenna, an unemployed 32-year-old musician, lives in a leaky houseboat with her two young daughters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
In May, the Green Party admitted Polanski may have failed to pay council tax on the houseboat, which was his home until recently.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
The Green Party has admitted that its leader Zack Polanski has, until recently, been living on a houseboat in London and may have failed to pay council tax.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
Matt Gibson, 52, moors his sage-green houseboat, bedecked with plants, on the Regent's Canal near central London.
From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026
In December, Meng tells me we will relocate to Long Deang to live on a houseboat with one of Eang’s sisters and her family in the lower end of the Mekong Delta.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
After declining in use, "a restoration movement came about in the '60s" and people began to live on canal houseboats, Clarke said.
From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026
But these are typically clusters of houseboats moored close to one another.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2024
After owning timeshares of smaller houseboats for a decade, Salmon purchased one-ninth of an Adonia luxury houseboat in 2015.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2023
He is a welder by trade, a designer and craftsman who builds houseboats and other structures, including the equipment needed for Fremont Mischief, the distillery they launched in 2009.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 22, 2023
On the water, there appears to be a city of houseboats with many hundreds of them docked closely together.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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