Usage examples (7)

• Its stated aims were to purchase boats, canalise the river to make it navigable, and build warehouses and other infrastructure for commerce.
• They canalise for their own security a torrent which, undisciplined, would serve but to destroy.
• Artists must canalise their emotion, they must concentrate their energies on some definite problem.
• But most artists have got to canalise their emotion and concentrate their energies on some more definite and more maniable problem than that of making something that...