houseboat
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verb (used without object)
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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
Polanski has been under pressure to explain whether the houseboat, moored at a marina in east London, had been his primary residence.
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
Fishing: At Trinity Lake, you can rent a deck boat, pontoon boat or houseboat and try your hand at catching large and smallmouth bass, rainbow trout and Kokanee salmon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2025
With Lewis’s money, they bought a houseboat and stayed on the river.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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
Aqib said some cooking gas cylinders exploded after the blaze started in the houseboats where tourists from outside Kashmir come and stay.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2023
Down here, the city blocks dissolved into rafts of houseboats tied loosely together.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
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