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How to pronounce houseboat in English?

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Type Words
Type of barge, flatboat, hoy, lighter

Examples of houseboat

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The kitchen, while nicely appointed, would not look out of place on a houseboat.
From the nytimes.com
This is just outside city limits and the northern end of the houseboat marinas.
From the sfgate.com
She hops aboard Auster's houseboat in Brooklyn to chew the fat about getting old.
From the guardian.co.uk
By then, Frank was living with his second wife aboard a houseboat in Sausalito.
From the sfgate.com
Another, a houseboat from New York, had two dead mussels on the lower surface.
From the denverpost.com
De Wit had been staying in separate rooms on the New Beauty houseboat in Srinagar.
From the india.blogs.nytimes.com
This private treehouse on Vancouver Island was conceived as a houseboat in a tree.
From the forbes.com
The first city folk affected lived in houseboat colonies along the riverbanks.
From the stltoday.com
The three jointly built a houseboat which they sailed in the Sacramento Delta.
From the en.wikipedia.org
More examples
  • A barge that is designed and equipped for use as a dwelling
  • A houseboat is a boat that has been designed or modified to be used primarily as a human dwelling. Some houseboats are not motorized, because they are usually moored, kept stationary at a fixed point and often tethered to land to provide utilities. ...
  • Houseboat is a 1958 romantic comedy film starring Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Paul Petersen, Charles Herbert and Mimi Gibson. The movie was directed by Melville Shavelson, who also directed the original 1968 version of Yours, Mine and Ours.
  • The following is an episode list for the Fox television sitcom Malcolm in the Middle. The show ran for seven seasons from 2000 to 2006 with 151 episodes produced.
  • (Houseboats) typically use a minimum of four 5/8" to 3/4" diameter dock lines for each side of the boat and secured in locations to prevent the boat from moving side-to-side, forward and backward, during bad weather conditions using the classical dock line techniques mentioned above. ...
  • A large, flat-bottom boat with square sides and house-like characteristics, such as comfortable furniture and living accommodations.
  • A floating house generally, but not always, converted from a boat.
  • A vessel which typically sacrifices sea keeping ability for living space.