How to Use vaporetto in a Sentence

vaporetto

noun

• Most vaporetto lines shut down at night, though the painfully slow-moving N (night) line still operates.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 8 June 2017
• Both are easily reached by waterbus (vaporetto), and good for a stroll and a draught of fresh air, as much for their historic sites and shopping.
  — Patrick Rogers, Town & Country, 12 Mar. 2018
• Another video, shared by the mayor, appears to show the duo speeding down the canal and passing just by a vaporetto, or water taxi.
  — Claudio Lavanga, NBC News, 18 Aug. 2022
• Visitors queue in their hundreds for the vaporetto and onboard the idea of social distancing is laughable.
  — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
• While in Venice, Bey and Jay lived the glamorous life, snapping photos while riding in a vaporetto boat.
  — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 16 Oct. 2021
• The vaporetto is the public transit system in the city and operates on 20 different lines all through town.
  — Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2021
• Several tourists boarding the vaporetto bump their suitcases into her and almost knock her into the murky water.
  — Chris Morris, Orange County Register, 3 Mar. 2017
• And the water taxi—the equivalent of taking a town car to get around—is notably pricier than, say, the public vaporetto (waterbus).
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2020
• Arrive by vaporetto, the quintessential mode of transport, to these fashionable spots.
  — Kathy A. McDonald, Variety, 30 Aug. 2023
• Some choose to take a vaporetto (or water taxi) to the lagoon island of Mazzorbo, a restful break from the buzz of Venice proper.
  — Tom Marchant, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Oct. 2021
• From the Scuola, take the vaporetto to the Dorsoduro district and tour the church of San Sebastiano.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 8 June 2017
• At least three vaporetti, Venice’s public transportation boats, sank, Italian media reported.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Nov. 2019
• Trattoria Al Gatto Nero is worth the 40-minute vaporetto ride to Burano.
  — Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2021
• Anyone who has been on a lumbering Venice vaporetto will have noticed these kids zooming across the water in foamy, curving circuits, going nowhere fast and then some, for the sheer, heart-quickening joy of it.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 10 Apr. 2022
• An impromptu transportation strike has shut down the vaporettos, so today the Grand Canal is the province of snappy motorboats and lacquered black gondolas.
  — Jean Bond Rafferty, Town & Country, 17 Dec. 2012
• Take a vaporetto, or water bus, to the northern islands of Burano, Mazzorbo, and Torcello.
  — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 12 Oct. 2024
• The vaporetto, provided by the public transport service Actv, was kitted out by the local health service Ulss 3 Serenissima.
  — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• The fair centers on the Giardini, a few vaporetto stops from San Marco, and the Arsenale, a massive former shipworks.
  — Jane Wooldridge, miamiherald, 21 Oct. 2017
• Across the world in Venice, simply board a vaporetto, one of the water buses that serve as the main form of public transport, and marvel at gothic palaces that hark back to the city’s 14th- and 15th-century grandeur.
  — Keith Plocek, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2019
• Previously, the vaccination vaporetto had docked at the islands of Pellestrina and Burano.
  — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• On footage captured by various locals, they were caught dodging a vaporetto (water bus) and a taxi under the Rialto Bridge as well as zipping past the Salute basilica, one of the city's iconic sites.
  — Julia Buckley, CNN, 17 Aug. 2022
• Another will go on Giudecca island, just off the Palanca vaporetto stop, a residential area increasingly popular with visitors.
  — Julia Buckley, CNN, 17 Aug. 2021
• Public transportation is limited to water buses (called vaporetto) traveling the Grand Canal, which cuts through the center of the city, and those that circle the city from the exterior in the Venetian Lagoon.
  — Jeanne O'Brien Coffey, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
• When the crowds get too large in Venice, take the vaporetto to the Lido island and hop on the number 11 ferry, which will cleave through the lagoon, ending at Chioggia -- perched on five islands, at the southern end of the Venetian lagoon.
  — Julia Buckley, CNN, 20 Apr. 2021