boarded

past tense of board

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of boarded The deal was negotiated by MK2 Films, which boarded the film for sales prior to the Venice film festival, and Neon. — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 21 Oct. 2026 The deal was negotiated by MK2 Films, who boarded the film for sales prior to the Venice film festival, and Neon. — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2026 In 1731 Brit Robert Jenkins was captaining one such ship, en route from Jamaica to London, when Spanish guards boarded it in the West Indies. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 Oct. 2026 Luxury shops in the historic center of Milan closed early on Monday and boarded up their shop fronts amid fears of further unrest there, local media reported. — ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026 The Arc’teryx boutique on Corso Garibaldi was the most widely impacted and was boarded up with plywood panels to prevent break-ins on Monday. — Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 19 Oct. 2026 Peter and Paul, around 250 people boarded the MS Passau, a boat built to carry passengers on scenic day cruises along the Danube River between Germany and Austria. — Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026 Video captured on Wednesday shows glass boarded up near the entrance, where witnesses said the shooting happened. — Doug Myers, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026 Chesney was the first to admit it before his team boarded a plane back to Los Angeles, instead of a boat. — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for boarded
Verb
  • Sigrid Rausing, Granta’s publisher, said in a statement that the magazine fed Nazir’s story into Claude as a way of gauging whether it was written with AI.
    — T.M. Brown, CNN Money, 21 Oct. 2026
  • His unmasking fed an emerging panic over Wikipedia’s accuracy.
    — Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • The group has organized several listening events, at venues from the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania to the Angel Orensanz Center, housed in a 175-year-old former synagogue in New York.
    — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Check into Trevarefabrikken, a photogenic boutique hotel and cultural hub in a mossy-yellow building that once housed a cod liver oil factory.
    — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Jalisco state suspended classes on Friday and Monday in 22 coastal municipalities and began evacuating people from at-risk areas while asking the tourism sector to make sure workers and visitors are fully accommodated in shelters or safe zones.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2026
  • In short, pool coverage underscores efforts to create a public record of government actions, even if every news group can’t be accommodated in a particular physical space.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 10 Oct. 2026
Verb
  • Alongside Amazon Prime Video and Disney+, Netflix has lodged an appeal with France’s highest administrative court, the Conseil d’État, challenging new sub-quotas for investment in documentaries and animation.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 21 Oct. 2026
  • The protests being lodged against that decision provide some comfort, and Louise would have been grateful for them.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026

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“Boarded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/boarded. Accessed 25 Oct. 2026.

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