ferryboat

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Recent Examples of ferryboat On another ferryboat is the Constitution and all the state and local officials dedicated to upholding it. Alexandra Petri, Washington Post, 18 June 2024 Music at the Maritime, a quarterly concert series performed aboard one of the museum’s historic world-class ships, the 1898 steam ferryboat Berkeley. Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024 Guests who crossed the Hudson River on ferryboats to Liberty Island included Madonna, Queen Latifah and the entertainment executive Michael Eisner. Jacob Bernstein, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2023 The open-deck ferryboat from Cedar Island to Ocracoke hums along for just over two hours to a terminal in a sheltered harbor. Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 10 Oct. 2023 See All Example Sentences for ferryboat
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Noun
  • In March 2024, the wreck of the steamship Milwaukee, which sank after colliding with another vessel in 1886, was found 360 feet below the water's surface in Lake Michigan.
    CBS News, CBS News, 16 May 2025
  • On the Mississippi, where Mark Twain had once waited upriver for steamships from this city, all boat traffic had fallen silent.
    Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • But that changed in the 1950s after a barge, loaded with construction materials to build a school, got stuck near present-day Newtok and couldn’t navigate farther upriver.
    Emily Schwing, ProPublica, 29 May 2025
  • Ancient Egyptians are famous for their pioneering and mastery of hydraulics through canals for irrigation purposes and barges to transport huge stones.
    Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Back then, the steamer was the first to push content out in 4K and later HDR.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 4 June 2025
  • When used together, the steamer and the mask boost curls’ retention and definition while tending to overall hair health.
    Jenny Berg, Vogue, 26 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In 1986, a 520-foot freighter from South Korea scraped the underside of the bridge, destroying one of the ship’s radars.
    Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 18 May 2025
  • Two-thirds of the 155 that Boeing sold were configured as freighters, including the final one that left the factory in 2023.
    Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • Limp also spotlighted Blue Origin's work on zero-boil-off technology and the firm's Transporter tanker.
    Leonard David, Space.com, 4 June 2025
  • Additionally, owners of tankers supplying fuel to squid fishers are not mandated to register these vessels within fleets that directly contact fishing vessels, creating a regulatory gap that enables support with a minimal record of activities.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • Emergency crews were dispatched to the area of the river near the Sikorsky facility on the report of an accident involving a personal watercraft shortly after 10 p.m., according to the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 5 June 2025
  • Participants must bring their own watercraft, personal flotation device, whistle, and a white electric light.
    Joe Rassel, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 June 2025
Noun
  • These preyed upon American merchantmen who either payed tribute or showed forged British passes.
    Thomas Wendel, National Review, 4 July 2019
  • The Navy already has ships in the fleet that are former merchantmen.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2019
Noun
  • Directed by Chris Sanders (known for How to Train Your Dragon and Lilo & Stitch), the film, based on the books by Peter Brown, The Wild Robot follows a robot whose transport ship crashes in a tsunami, causing the robot to wash up on an island populated only by animals.
    Alex Apatoff, People.com, 29 May 2025
  • Other deals reportedly in the works include providing Starlink satellite internet services to companies in the Middle East and tunneling firm, the Boring Company, building a transport system underneath Dubai.
    Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 May 2025

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“Ferryboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ferryboat. Accessed 14 Jun. 2025.

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