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ferryboat

noun

Definition of ferryboat

as in steamship

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Recent Examples of ferryboat Crofton will be the only living person with a Disney ferryboat named after her. — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 May 2026 Right now, engineers and craft workers are teaming up to design and build the new ferryboat. — Molly Burford, Southern Living, 1 May 2026 The ferryboat was on the go all day long, covering more miles in a day than the barge would cover in a century. — Eric Duvall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2025 One foggy morning this spring, a ferryboat traversed the choppy waters between lower Manhattan and Governors Island. — Adam Iscoe, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for ferryboat

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Noun

Those who chose to rest on the banks of the Potomac River could be seen by steamship passengers playing bridge and dancing in the river breeze.

— Hana Kiros, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026
With the advent of the steamship, the cost of passage plummeted, and companies offered special immigrant fares that were often coupled with rail tickets to the interior of the country.

— Albert Sun, New York Times, 2 July 2026

Definition of steamship

Noun

The Boeing 737 entered service in 1999 as a passenger aircraft before it was converted into a freighter in 2011.

— Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 9 July 2026
The 737-400 was first delivered as a passenger plane to Russia’s Aeroflot in 1999 and was converted to a freighter in 2012, according to Flightradar24.

— Reuters, CNN Money, 8 July 2026

Definition of freighter

Noun

Oil prices rose above $90 a barrel for the first time in more than a month, as the conflict between the United States and Iran escalated further, resulting in the deaths of three US service members and a strike on a tanker.

— Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
In comparison, about 300,000 barrels could be loaded onto a vessel that shuttles cargoes out to a bigger tanker offshore holding around 700,000 barrels.

— Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 18 July 2026

Definition of tanker

Noun

This week, the US approved a $2 billion Saudi order for weapons guidance systems, launchers, warheads, and other equipment, as well as a $484 million package of parts for Kuwait’s fleet of C-17 military transport aircraft.

— Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 17 July 2026
Seven more launches will complete Tranche with 63 additional data transport satellites and 28 missile tracking satellites manufactured by Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and L3Harris.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 17 July 2026

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