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 The first few days of Riyadh Season have gone ahead with little incident, even if participants were forced to divert to other cities or even neighboring Bahrain or Kuwait before being ferried back to the Saudi capital. — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2026 Treasury said Caspian had transported IRGC personnel and weapons to Syria and said Meraj had ferried illicit cargo, including weapons, to the Syrian government. — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026 But that requires arms with minor-league options who can be ferried between Triple-A Albuquerque and Denver. — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 25 Sep. 2026 The defunct Amtrak line, which ran more than 2,600 miles between Seattle and Chicago, ferried passengers to stops in Boise, Pocatello and Salt Lake City, winding along tracks that still carve through Idaho’s Snake River Plain today. — Rose Evans september 15, Idaho Statesman, 15 Sep. 2026 The Pilot once ferried maritime pilots to larger ships in Boston Harbor. — ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026 Madilynn Becker, Miss Kansas While Madilynn Becker has long since given up most of her rituals and superstitions, there was one that ferried her through her young pageant career. — Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 21 Aug. 2026 He’s now being ferried around the Ankara airport in a food service vehicle to a third aircraft, leaving the crew and other administration personnel to leave on a plane that was presumably under threat. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 13 Aug. 2026 In the mid 1800s, opulent steamers like the Albany ferried passengers across the Great Lakes to burgeoning Midwest cities. — Stacy Conde, Midwest Living, 10 Aug. 2026

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Sánchez has pledged an investigation and improvements to restore trust in the rail system that last year carried 45 million travelers, including millions of tourists.

— Francisco Seco, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2026
The rockets are carried in launch pods, with six rounds in a HIMARS pod and 12 across the two pods carried by an M270 launcher.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 11 Nov. 2026

Definition of carried

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Amid dealing with a custody battle that cut time with her two small boys down to alternating weeks, says Butler, her friends hauled her camping on the backside of Pikes Peak in central Colorado and introduced her to target shooting during the trip.

— Heide Brandes, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2026
All of that material is currently hauled elsewhere for disposal, including round trips of about 200 miles to other biomass facilities.

— Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026

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Over two partial days and one full day of fishing – roughly 15 hours total – the three of us boated 53 catfish up to 25 pounds.

— Brad Dokken, Twin Cities, 29 Aug. 2025
Many of the 30,000 tourists last year who boated down the Paraguay River beside the Serra do Amolar, about 60 miles downriver from Porto Jofre, were guests on liveaboard fishing charters.

— Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Aug. 2025

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Holly Springs Fire Chief LeRoy Smith said seven people were transported to a hospital with major injuries and 15 others sustained minor injuries.

— News Editor, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2026
Wuensch was transported by ambulance to Windham Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead, according to state police.

— Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of transported

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The league sent American football equipment to nearly 1,000 schools across the island.

— Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 7 Nov. 2026
Leger Fernández described Tuesday’s election results as a powerful rebuke in which men accused of misconduct lost reelection, while voters also sent record numbers of women to Congress.

— Anna Liss-Roy, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of sent

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In the litigation brought by the Iranian immigrant advocacy group, at least a dozen Iranian detainees have said they’ve been contacted by Iranian officials who had knowledge of sensitive information on their asylum claims.

— Safiyah Riddle, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2026
Rookie Camden Brown brought it out three times and didn’t have any mishaps.

— Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Nov. 2026

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