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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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 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 Middle Eastern producers have ferried cargoes out of the Gulf as part of a shuttle program put in place by several countries in the region. — Bloomberg, Fortune, 7 Aug. 2026 Soufflet Vigne, the French agricultural supply and winemaking service company, ferried back and forth water tanks and pumps typically used for fermentation and production to provide water sources for firefighters. — Kate Dingwall, Bon Appetit Magazine, 31 July 2026 Jet skis ferried survivors back to shore while people on the beach provided first aid. — Aniruddha Ghosal, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026

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For Meyer, who was born and raised in Los Angeles and grew up on the Westside, reopening in the Palisades also carried personal significance.

— Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 1 Oct. 2026
Trump carried it by roughly 12 percentage points in 2024, and Republican gubernatorial nominee Winsome Earle-Sears carried it by about 8 points in 2025.

— Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 30 Sep. 2026

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Early in the match tiebreaker, De Minaur leaped for a volley and ended up sprawled on the black court inside the O2 Arena before popping back up as Zverev's reply sailed out.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2026
But Yamamoto’s throw to third sailed wide, allowing a run to score.

— Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 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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The boat was removed from the Santa Rosa Island beach by a towing company and transported to Ventura Harbor, the service said.

— Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2026
The prevalence of water-bearing minerals in the Bennu sample also suggests that water-ice that sublimated into vapor just inside the snow line was also part of the material that was transported into the region where Bennu and its cousins were built.

— Keith Cooper, Space.com, 27 Sep. 2026

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Miller later sent Harding into halftime with its seven-point lead after scoring on a 1-yard run with 18 seconds remaining in the second quarter.

— Erick Taylor, Arkansas Online, 27 Sep. 2026
Skubal’s outing Friday sent him into the first-round bye on a high note.

— Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2026

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