gondola

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Recent Examples of gondola The ticket price includes a buffet lunch at the midway point in Osier, Colorado, plus access to the open-air gondola car for better photo ops of the aspen trees that turn bright yellow in autumn. Lyndsey Matthews, AFAR Media, 20 Aug. 2025 This gondola journey to Punta Helbronner, about 11,000 feet high, is not for the faint of heart—altitude sickness is real. Hannah Howard, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2025 For example, the city of Sugar Land, Texas, tested an autonomous cable-rail system, utilizing electric gondolas to swiftly transport passengers between key city points without requiring transfers. Nadezhda Kosareva, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025 By day three, exhaustion forced me to skip a scenic section and rely on the gondola, bus, and train to reach my bed. Jennifer Malloy, Outside, 1 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gondola
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gondola
Noun
  • The ferry pulled back into the Manhattan station.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Arriving In Tromsø By Cruise Ship Some ships dock at Prostneset, right in the heart of the city beside the coastal ferry terminal.
    David Nikel, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • During taxi rides and walking between terminals, schedule your non-critical phone calls.
    Arpit Jain, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • For those with accessibility needs, electric taxis and minibuses are available through your hotel or the tourist office.
    Alexandra Emanuelli, Travel + Leisure, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • One foggy morning this spring, a ferryboat traversed the choppy waters between lower Manhattan and Governors Island.
    Adam Iscoe, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • As a teenager, Ellen Dare Burling had an unusual summer job: Jumping off a moving ferryboat onto wooden piers, her arms filled with letters and packages destined for summer residents in their southern Wisconsin lake houses.
    Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Witnesses watch as barge hits sailboat of campers The operator likely couldn’t hear from inside the pilot house atop the towboat, the captain said.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 3 Aug. 2025
  • The Wake Pro 230 was designed around being a towboat, for water-skiing, wakeboarding, or wake-surfing.
    Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • Other soybeans continue their journey to global markets, moving through the heartland by rail or barge to ports, then across oceans.
    Gary McGuigan, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The decommissioned Navy barge from the outside.
    Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The strikes took place on a military base on the peninsula and in Sevastopol Bay, a Russian tugboat was also hit, according to the GUR.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
  • His father, a tugboat stoker, was often away, and young Terence found solace in films, idolizing Gary Cooper and James Dean.
    Daniel Ross Goodman, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The proposal envisioned extensive plans for alternative transportation to stadium events to lessen the impact on Rickenbacker Causeway traffic, including water taxi service and a network of continuous shuttle buses to and from several points on the mainland.
    Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Matt Remick falling off a water taxi outside the Excelsior?
    Alex Ritman, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • When the state attorney’s office steps in, the prosecution pushes back, resulting in a legal and political tug of war that thrusts Adnan’s case into chaotic uncertainty.
    Peter White, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Several noted that his instinctive tug had likely prevented the pair from colliding with the elk.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025

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“Gondola.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gondola. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.

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