How to Use houseboat in a Sentence

houseboat

noun
  • By then, if nothing changes, she and her houseboat will be gone.
    — New York Times, 29 June 2022
  • His dog was also found dead in the water next to the houseboat.
    — Jennifer Rodriguez, Miami Herald, 9 Feb. 2025
  • Guests will need to drive the houseboat to the marina and dock it.
    — Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
  • But for the right type of history buff, the houseboat may be well worth it.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2020
  • One night, when our houseboat was parked next to another, a storm woke us.
    — Beverly Beckham, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Five hours later, an eight-person team stormed the houseboat.
    — refinery29.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The houseboats can sleep up to six people and can be taken out on the water.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 4 Feb. 2024
  • The houseboats can sleep up to six people and can be taken out on the water.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Bourne said Reineck had been trying to sell the houseboat for some time.
    — By Frances Robles, John Lantigua and Martin Merzer, miamiherald, 2 July 2017
  • The pair lived on a houseboat while transforming the place into a lunch counter.
    — Chelsea Brasted, Southern Living, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Regardless of the cost of a floating home, don't call it a houseboat.
    — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 31 Mar. 2018
  • Maybe no one will want to go to Manchin's swanky houseboat parties anymore.
    — David Faris, The Week, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Here are nine of the best houseboat vacations around the country.
    — Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 21 June 2024
  • Lost home to previous fire Topel bought her houseboat in March and fixed it up.
    — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 19 Nov. 2024
  • There were blood stains on the blanket covering his body as well as the rear of the houseboat, police said.
    — Samira Asma-Sadeque, People.com, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Salmon and Reaser returned to the houseboat to make sure it was secured tightly to shore.
    — Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The court ruled 7-to-2 against the city, saying Lozman’s houseboat was more house than boat.
    — Robert Barnes, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2018
  • This floating houseboat is nestled in the heart of Lonsdale Quay.
    — Megan Honan, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Visitors can also stay right on the water, with third-party houseboat rentals.
    — Eve Chen, USA Today, 1 Mar. 2026
  • The boats ranged from 20 to 40 feet long and included houseboats and pontoons.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al, 28 Jan. 2020
  • In that scene, Cripps gave the houseboat set a feel of gezelligheid, a Dutch word for coziness and warmth.
    — Carolyn Giardina, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The city's site notes that many creatives still live in the Sausalito, and tourists frequent the area to see the houseboats.
    — Jennifer Aldrich, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Apr. 2020
  • Alligators, crab shells, and houseboats abound!
    — Literary Hub june 21, Literary Hub, 21 June 2023
  • Here, wealthy techies rub elbows with artists living on houseboats anchored in Richardson Bay.
    — Cu Fleshman, Travel + Leisure, 7 June 2026
  • The two were introduced at a party on a houseboat on the Thames in the mid-2000s.
    — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 4 June 2021
  • The rest of the money Piercey and Winton used to buy homes, a houseboat and to pay off other business and loan debts.
    — Matthias Gafni, SFChronicle.com, 20 Nov. 2020
  • The rest of the money Piercey and Winton used to buy homes, a houseboat and to pay off other business and loan debts.
    — Matthias Gafni, SFChronicle.com, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Man + River was one of the first to explore the remains of what appears to be a yacht, or a houseboat, that seems to have sunk decades ago.
    — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2022
  • All three of those tenets are found within the one-bedroom, two-bath abode, which replaced an aging houseboat that had occupied the slip for decades.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 24 Aug. 2025
  • There's the oysters, Pike Place Market, and so, so much water -- the beach, the lake, the houseboat.
    — CNN, 14 Feb. 2022

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