(n.) A pleasure boat; a vessel or boat of state, elegantly furnished and decorated.
(n.) A large, roomy boat for the conveyance of passengers or goods; as, a ship's barge; a charcoal barge.
(n.) A large boat used by flag officers.
(n.) A double-decked passenger or freight vessel, towed by a steamboat.
(n.) A large omnibus used for excursions.
Example Sentences:
(1) The only sign of life was excavators loading trees on to barges to take to pulp mills.
(2) The farmers may also struggle to find other bulk items, such as fertiliser, that are typically shipped by barge.
(3) We are told the thunder and lightning made it impossible for the engineers to position the control room barge, thus delaying the operation.
(4) PSG's title will not, however, be confirmed until a league disciplinary panel meets to decide whether to impose a points deduction following allegations that their sporting director, Leonardo, barged a referee.
(5) The catamaran-style “waste harvester” uses a system of interchangeable barges and on-board storage to continuously harvest surface waste without having to frequently return to shore to unload.
(6) A retired police officer told the West Yorkshire inquiry that there were rumours in the early 1960s that Savile "took young girls to his barge in Leeds for parties".
(7) Barges are carrying lighter loads, making for more traffic, with more delays and back-ups.
(8) The Chinese dredger barges can reach up to 30 metres below the surface, cutting out and scooping up huge quantities of sand and coral for land reclamation projects.
(9) A discarded oil drum bobbing in the Napo highlights the pollution from the oil barges and river traffic.
(10) When, finally, the LPO barge joined the procession of boats, Blunt says he found it "impossible not to get swept up in national fever.
(11) Wayne Rooney was still protesting after the final whistle, the England captain furious Mark Clattenburg had penalised Rafael da Silva for a foul on Vardy, when the Leicester forward had barged into the United full-back seconds earlier.
(12) They shrugged off the harsh decision not to award them a 43rd-minute penalty for a barge by Giorgio Chiellini on Joel Campbell to strike the decisive blow through the captain Bryan Ruiz.
(13) Reefs are ideal locations for land reclamation because they rise far above the surrounding seabed, making them accessible to dredger barges.
(14) After Michal Pazdan tried to nick Nani’s pass from him and failed, the chance opened up but Ronaldo shot straight at Fabianski while, on the half-hour, he should have had a penalty when Pazdan barged into him as he attacked a cross.
(15) The Italian company IREM won the contract and supplied its own permanent workforce, accommodating them in large, grey housing barges moored off Grimsby docks.
(16) When elected to Westminster, however, her primary sporting activity was cycling to work along the river Thames from the barge on which she lived with her husband, Brendan Cox, and their two children, Lejla and Cuillin.
(17) The company has tried repeatedly to complete a landing of a 68m-tall rocket on the barge, most recently in March .
(18) By the time it arrived at the O2 Arena in Greenwich at 6pm, it had been buffeted and barged by clashes between pro-Tibetan demonstrators and Chinese students, and its passage interrupted by several direct incursions from protesters.
(19) Juventus and Liverpool have been brutally barged from contests by the Ivorian in recent weeks, with London rivals now dispatched the same way.
(20) In one of those self-destructive moments which have become this team’s hallmark, Fabricio Coloccini barged Steven Fletcher with a shoulder as the striker attempted to connect with Jermain Defoe’s pass.
Ceremonial
Definition:
(a.) Relating to ceremony, or external rite; ritual; according to the forms of established rites.
(a.) Observant of forms; ceremonious. [In this sense ceremonious is now preferred.]
(n.) A system of rules and ceremonies, enjoined by law, or established by custom, in religious worship, social intercourse, or the courts of princes; outward form.
(n.) The order for rites and forms in the Roman Catholic church, or the book containing the rules prescribed to be observed on solemn occasions.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the ceremony, the Taliban welcomed dialogue with Washington but said their fighters would not stop fighting.
(2) The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge stood among the graves on 4 August last year in a moving ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of war.
(3) The ceremony is the much-anticipated shop window for the Games, and Boyle was brought in to provide the creative vision.
(4) They also made it clear that they would seek to use the award to bring their two countries closer together and said they would invite their prime ministers, Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan and Narendra Modi of India, to the award ceremony in Oslo in December.
(5) Perhaps you'd like to know how she felt holding the Olympic flag alongside Ban Ki-moon at the 2012 opening ceremony .
(6) From Africa, the archbishop of Kenya warned "the devil has entered the church", while a few days before the ceremony Robinson received a postcard from England, depicting the high altar of Durham cathedral and bearing the message: "You fornicating, lecherous pig."
(7) I'm having a civil partnership ceremony in six weeks and don't know whether to invite my mum.
(8) An adviser to the Sultan of Aïr, the town’s ceremonial leader , sighs.
(9) But some wise old heads sniff into their handkerchiefs because they have sat through too many costly "happy ever after" ceremonies that ended in acrimony.
(10) Philip and Roger Taylor-Brown, who have been together for three years and have already changed their names by deed poll, registered in Manchester yesterday for a ceremony on December 21.
(11) They are doing it not because they believe the 66-year-old can win in 2020, but for the same reason people retweet images of same-sex wedding ceremonies.
(12) His rise to office came a day after meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin at D-day commemoration ceremonies in France.
(13) A ceremony will take place at which Jolie will receive the child, who is said to be healthy, likeable, a bit shy and keen on football.
(14) Those who wish to turn the tragedy between us, Palestinians and Israel … into a religious war have blood on their hands,” Rivlin, whose post is mainly ceremonial, told journalists.
(15) When Emma Horan and Sam Whitney get married next summer they will commit themselves to each other in a special place, surrounded by their family and closest friends, but, as things stand, the wedding ceremony will not be recognised in law because their belief system is not based on religion.
(16) As a central feature of every ceremony, Nepali shamans (jhãkris) publicly recite lengthy oral texts, whose meticulous memorization constitutes the core of shamanic training.
(17) They marched to the police roadblock, and performed a 21-gun salute for a fallen veteran and a prayer ceremony on the bridge.
(18) The ceremony also produced the most retweeted photograph ever, with Ellen DeGeneres’ “selfie” attracting more than 2m retweets to smash Barack Obama’s record .
(19) It posted photos on its website of what it said was Thargyal's charred body covered in ceremonial yellow silk scarves and hundreds of people marching up a hill to a cremation site where his remains were burned.
(20) There was no media coverage of the signing, in contrast to the high-profile ceremonies this week when Obama issued his orders on ethics reform and Guantánamo Bay.