gondola

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Recent Examples of gondola People come to Las Vegas to experience all kinds of wonders: wandering around an Egyptian-style pyramid; eating dinner at a replica of the Eiffel Tower; watching fountains dance to music; and taking a gondola ride in a Venetian canal (if Venice were transplanted to the Mojave). Rakesh Agrawal, PC Magazine, 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 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
  • Elementary school students are brought to the Stranahan House to learn about pioneer life, ring the old ferry bell, make butter, play with pioneer-style toys and go on scavenger hunts.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Many Amazon reviewers shared the harrowing accidents that motivated them to finally buy one, including a car rolling off a ferry and a rollover accident with kids in the backseat.
    Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Also among those scheduled for release was Muhammad Zakarneh, convicted of planning the killing of a taxi driver in 2009, and Muhammad Abu al-Rub, convicted of carrying out a fatal stabbing attack in 2017.
    Tim Lister, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Almost 40% of taxi and ride-hailing drivers nationwide are on Medicaid or receive health care subsidies, according to Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank.
    Levi Sumagaysay, Mercury News, 13 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
  • And on a barge with 30 elephants on the bank and the sun setting and birds flying over and hippos in the water.
    Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
  • And on a barge with 30 elephants on the bank and the sun setting and birds flying over and hippos in the water.
    Janelle Ash , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • According to Devandra Fadnavis, Chief Minister of Maharashtra state, a water taxi service will run between the Gateway of India monument and NMI.
    Ayushi Shah, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The process feels more like a quick peel than a painful tug, leaving skin smooth in just minutes.
    Lily Wohlner, Allure, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Together, these breakthroughs promise a safe, compact, ready-to-use seaworthy fuel supply that can potentially fuel fishing fleets, coastal ferries, tug boats, and other harbour service vessels, reported Fuel Cell Works.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2025

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“Gondola.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gondola. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.

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