gondola

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Recent Examples of gondola In 2021, a man planed to propose to his girlfriend during a romantic gondola ride in Las Vegas, with passersby stopping to watch and record the sweet moment. Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025 When will the Venetian cat jump gondola? Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2025 In addition to that, Scruton’s team built a gondola that needed to float down the canal. Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025 Free concerts on Wednesdays and Fridays in Mountain Village, which is just a short gondola ride away, keep the vibes rolling through the summer before the season concludes with the incomparable Telluride Blues & Brews Festival in September. Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 1 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gondola
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gondola
Noun
  • The final bus routes will depart at 7 o’clock tonight, and all ferry routes will be canceled tomorrow.
    George Solis, NBC news, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Many days, Vrana and her son ride the ferry to Fourni for school, along with his older siblings and a few others.
    Sarah McCammon, NPR, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • An American Airlines Airbus A321 taxis at San Diego International Airport as a United Airlines airplane departs on August 24, 2024 in San Diego, California.
    Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2025
  • That is when the japes really started, most prominently on a mid-season bonding trip to Barcelona when four players ‘borrowed’ a taxi after a late-night trip to McDonald’s.
    Nick Miller, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
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
  • But efforts to drag the barge to the site via helicopter failed, with the icebreaker getting stuck in ice and mud.
    Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The barge was carrying a large crane, stationed in front of the tugboat captain’s pilot house.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Maintaining the tugboat became cumbersome, and three Zizian members opted to move into box trucks before squatting in a Bay Area trailer lot owned by Curtis Lind, then age 80, a former shipworker and grandfather of four.
    Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 20 Oct. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Tram, metro, and water taxi stations are within a 10-minute walk, and other popular areas of Dubai, including downtown, Kite Beach, and the Al Fahidi Heritage district, are easily accessed by taxi.
    Nicola Chilton, AFAR Media, 13 Oct. 2025
  • For a special occasion dinner, book a water taxi to Islesford Dock, a fishing dock turned fine dining restaurant which sources most of its ingredients not just from the state of Maine, but their very county.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Wall Street Journal reports that regardless of how that fiscal tug-of- war turns out, health insurance premiums paid by Americans are expected to rise another 8% or 9% next year.
    Stephen Moore, Boston Herald, 23 Oct. 2025
  • In the heart of the Amazon Basin, where the borders and cultures of Peru, Colombia and Brazil converge, a tiny, shape-shifting island has become the unlikely setting for a diplomatic tug of war.
    Sarah Hutter, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025

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“Gondola.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gondola. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.

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