ferryboat

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Recent Examples of ferryboat 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 The Boat Trip: Etchings by Charles Francois Daubigny In 1857, French landscape painter Charles Francois Daubigny purchased a 27-foot ferryboat and converted it into a floating studio. Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 14 June 2023 So what’s a guy like Welsh doing musing about his mortality on a creaky ferryboat? Eliza Strickland, IEEE Spectrum, 29 Feb. 2012 See all Example Sentences for ferryboat 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ferryboat
Noun
  • The loss of the steamship Pacific on November 4, 1875, left the community of Victoria, British Columbia, in shock.
    Joel Sams, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2025
  • This new Chicago production produced in partnership with Porchlight Music Theatre is expected to play for several weeks and is directed by the original director, Tye Blue — but with an all-Chicago cast playing Rose, Jack and the crew of the doomed steamship.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Blue Origin, however, failed to meet its secondary goal of recovering the reusable booster stage of the rocket—which was supposed to land on a barge floating in the Atlantic but was lost during reentry.
    Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The company conceded that the goal of landing the rocket's reusable first stage booster on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean failed, after the booster was lost during reentry.
    Ivana Saric, Axios, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Cover the bowl or pan with plastic wrap, and set inside a steamer, steaming the mochi batter for 15 minutes, or until solidified and translucent.
    Ingu Chen, Vogue, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Remove wrinkles: Use a hand steamer to gently remove any wrinkles from the portion of your sheet that shows when folded down.
    Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 20 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The 50 Let Pobedy (50 Years of Victory) icebreaker was attempting to free the freighter Yamal Krechet from ice which was preventing it from reaching the port of Sabetta, in the Kara Sea, according to an expert.
    Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
  • The exact cause of the large freighter’s demise during the storm remains a mystery.
    The Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Life in Gaza has been sustained by intermittent convoys of water tankers and trucks with cargoes of plastic bottles.
    Claudine Ebeid, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Recommended The Monitor's View A migrant debate cuts across the Americas When one such tanker was hit and destroyed, the battle group helped evacuate its Filipino crew to safety aboard the USS Eisenhower.
    Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • His portfolio includes a 215-horsepower watercraft and the Snoped, an upright single-track snow bike with stark, boxy bodywork.
    Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, Fox News, 26 Jan. 2025
  • The firefighters used the watercraft to reach three hunters that had lost control of their boat and were unable to make it to shore.
    NWA Democrat-Gazette, arkansasonline.com, 28 Dec. 2024
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
  • Police were dispatched to a residence in the 300 block of Dobson Street in reference to a physical disturbance that resulted in two people being injured, both of whom declined transport by ambulance, but later received medical treatment, according to a press released issued by Pea Ridge Police.
    Annette Beard, arkansasonline.com, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Among them: Jack had arrived to Auschwitz on a transport June 24, 1943, with 1,600 Jews.
    Amber Hunt, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2025

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“Ferryboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ferryboat. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.

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