Thesaurus results for FERRIED

ferried

verb

past tense of ferry

as in carried

to support and take from one place to another there are shuttle buses to ferry visitors from the parking lots to the fairground

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as in sailed

to travel on water in a vessel we're planning to ferry to several islands in the Lesser Antilles

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Recent Examples of ferried Kansas City has not had its own municipal jail since 2009, meaning criminals who break city laws are held in police patrol stations, or ferried out to Missouri jails in Johnson County or Vernon County, both more than 50 miles away. —

Adam Crafton, New York Times, 9 June 2026 These booms—as well as a massive price tag—prompted the 2003 retirement of the only supersonic passenger plane, the Concorde, which ferried passengers starting in 1976. —

Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 6 June 2026 Washington has touted progress in negotiations with Tehran and several Asian nations have ferried some energy through the waterway, which has been blocked because of the conflict, but the global economy is suffering. —

Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 22 May 2026 Kenya serves as a major transport hub for businesspeople importing goods through the port of Mombasa to be ferried by road. —

ABC News, 18 May 2026 In the end, nearly 340,000 Allied troops were ferried to safety in England. —

Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 May 2026 This new angle shows the operation to evacuate passengers onto a smaller boat, which then ferried them into Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. —

Vasco Cotovio, CNN Money, 10 May 2026 Authorities plan strict evacuation protocols with the ship anchoring offshore while passengers are ferried ashore, as health officials track dozens who already disembarked before the outbreak was detected. —

Iain Sullivan, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2026 Wildlife here is so prolific that guests aren’t permitted to walk about; rather they’re ferried about by safari vehicle, passing honking hippos, giant basking Nile crocodiles and huge numbers of butterflies and birds. —

Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026

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Iran's blockade of the strait, which carried about 20% of the world's oil supply before the war, has throttled traffic through the critical oil shipping channel, driving up fuel prices and threatening the global economy.

— Bart Jansen, USA Today, 13 June 2026
The show focuses on a person looking back at their life and what carried them through from a list of wonderful things, big and small, that make life worth living.

— Marina Watts, Entertainment Weekly, 12 June 2026