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  1. provide (a city) with a canal

How To Use canalize In A Sentence

  • This was a side effect of the Industrial Revolution; many of our rivers were canalised and made navigable during the C19th which stuffed it all up with weirs and locks and pollution.
  • The only significant natural damaging action, in the current climate, is erosion by topographically canalised rain water, mostly confined to becks and burns.
  • Long stretches of streams have been canalised - the canal at the beginning of Barry Hertzog Avenue contains some beautiful stonework - but in the process the city has lost valuable natural streams.
  • Vascular tissue formation follows the flow of auxin, which is canalized into files of cells so that connected vascular strands form.
  • The only significant natural damaging action, in the current climate, is erosion by topographically canalised rain water, mostly confined to becks and burns.
  • ‘Water courses were rerouted and canalised to combat the danger of floods and to cultivate swampland,’ said Schaelchli.
  • On drains, and rivers canalised by man, with mile upon mile of seemingly identical water, finding a group of pike is much less likely.
  • Evolutionary theories of inclusive fitness and kin selection … explain the evolutionary origin and universality of nepotism. … (1) significant ethnic divisions tend to lead to ethnic interest conflicts in all societies and (2) the more a society is ethnically divided, the more political and other interest conflicts tend to become canalized along ethnic lines. A Nice Day For A Forced Wedding. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • The stream then flows towards the Parkview Golf Course, where sections of it are canalised.
  • Its rise to fame dates only from the middle of the 19th century when the river Baise was canalized and the Armagnacais gained direct access to Bordeaux for the first time.
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