boarded

past tense of board

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of boarded On July 4, a group of friends boarded boats and set out from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, to celebrate the holiday on nearby Horn Island. Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026 Varsovia Films produces with Uruguay’s Monarca Films, while Compañía de Cine has boarded international sales. John Hopewell, Variety, 13 Aug. 2026 According to the Washington Post, which first reported the story, the president boarded the older Air Force One jet as announced by the White House while leaving Turkey but was secretly then taken to a much smaller plane. Siladitya Ray, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026 American forces have also disabled 2 ships and boarded 2 to endure compliance, according to the statement on Sunday. Anniek Bao, CNBC, 10 Aug. 2026 Andrean High School Classroom windows at Andrean High School were left boarded up following the Ef-2 tornado back in June. Shardaa Gray, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026 Best Friend Forever has boarded international sales rights to Malayalam-language vampire revenge action-thriller Half ahead of its world premiere in Toronto’s Midnight Madness section. Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 10 Aug. 2026 The conductor explained the rules and safety guidelines before everyone boarded and found their seats. Molly Allen, Travel + Leisure, 10 Aug. 2026 But Milwaukee Avenue, the Northern border of the plaza, mostly is boarded up or covered with harsh metallic grates, even as that street thrives to the west, having been reinvented as the Hipster Highway, the epicenter of bike-lane Chicago. The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 6 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boarded
Verb
  • Nulo also makes some food toppers and mixers, designed to be mixed with a complete and balanced dry food, not fed on their own.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • To keep audiences interested and group chats well fed, an evolve-or-die mentality has to be adopted.
    Mia Galuppo, HollywoodReporter, 12 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • The Museum of Rural Arts In 2008, a volunteer association in the hamlet founded the Museum of Rural Arts, which is housed in a historic monastery (Convento di San Girolamo).
    Irene S. Levine, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2026
  • All the walls lifted to reveal this much larger space where she was housed.
    Destiny Jackson, Deadline, 15 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Taiwan fits neither category as a guest but Nagasaki accommodated its representatives at their request last year, officials said.
    ABC News, ABC News, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Of those families, the district accommodated 69% of the requests, while about 118 families were not transferred to their preferred school, Spielberg said.
    Molly Gibbs, Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • These are among the roughly 2,000 complaints consumers have lodged with US auto safety regulators describing problems with glitchy rearview camera systems, a figure that’s surged recently.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The Other is not modern; its features are to be regarded as lodged in an era that is over and done with.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026

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“Boarded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boarded. Accessed 16 Aug. 2026.

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