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
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
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
But two witnesses revealed that on the day Lewis disappeared, they had seen, a few miles from her houseboat, a car heading toward a snake-infested swamp.
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
These are households in places such as park homes and houseboats who did not have an energy supplier to apply a one-off £400 payment automatically.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2023
Officials have been going after homes upstream of Paris and houseboats on the Seine that were emptying their sewage and wastewater directly into the river.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
We drove over a canal and from atop the bridge I could see dozens of houseboats moored along the water.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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