riverboat

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Recent Examples of riverboat At first, the company was skeptical that Indiana policymakers would allow riverboat gambling. Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Jan. 2025 The church eventually used the restaurant profits to buy a riverboat, which was used for popular dinner cruises along the Rock River. Guthrie Scrimgeour, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2025 As with Tauck’s other riverboats, single supplements will be waived on the Category 1 cabins. Bailey Berg, AFAR Media, 26 Feb. 2025 Capturing the background plates for the riverboat scene required a 5 camera array, all shooting in 4k. Alex Ritman, Variety, 24 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for riverboat
Recent Examples of Synonyms for riverboat
Noun
  • Another similarly small and mobile option to throw into the mix is life on a houseboat or other type of floating home.
    Berit Thorkelson, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Rates range from 2,500 yuan (about $343) to 14,000 yuan a night for a four-bedroom villa; houseboat rooms go for 4,000 yuan, Mehta said via WeChat.
    Russell Flannery, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • On the eve of the indictments, Juarez posted to social media a picture of a peaceful scene: Himself on a large motorboat, a silver watch on his wrist, with a yellow and orange sun setting on the horizon behind him.
    Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Francine Kiefer/The Christian Science Monitor About 350 people live on the island, and each family has 3 acres, a motorboat, and a rowboat.
    Francine Kiefer, Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The 24-year-old booked the Airbnb, one friend booked a pontoon boat ride and another the dinner reservations.
    Nathan Diller, USA Today, 13 May 2025
  • The couple smiled together on a pontoon boat in the photo.
    Charna Flam, People.com, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • However, body camera footage showed the SUV crashing into Carroll's cruiser and the restaurant structure before Carroll opened fire.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Japan lost four aircraft carriers, one cruiser, and hundreds of aircraft, while the U.S. lost one carrier, one destroyer and 144 aircraft during the battle.
    Lucia I Suarez Sang, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • On Christmas Eve 1788, settlers hopped into flatboats at Limestone (Maysville, Kentucky) and traveled for four days down the icy Ohio River to establish Losantiville, later called Cincinnati.
    Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 15 Dec. 2024
  • The early whiskey makers in Kentucky were the first to barrel and ship their whiskey on flatboats down to New Orleans.
    Joseph V Micallef, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Our first glimpse of the low-lying island, roughly 500 miles south of Cairo, is of a fisherman balancing skillfully atop his rowboat in the bulrushes.
    Francine Kiefer, Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2025
  • The pair added their wishes to the wall and then headed out on a rowboat together.
    Dana Rose Falcone, People.com, 18 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Beach furniture and other recreational equipment (e.g., cabanas, umbrellas, canoes, small boats, bicycles) can reduce nesting success and increase false crawls on nesting beaches when left out overnight.
    Lexie Beach, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 May 2025
  • Settle once again came to the rescue by providing his own canoe to the team, who quickly rowed out to meet the young raptors.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Stillwater River Boats offers seasonal tours of the St. Croix on an old-fashioned paddleboat, including sightseeing and jazz brunch cruises.
    Caroline Eubanks, Travel + Leisure, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Enjoy a sunset cruise aboard a paddleboat.
    Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 4 Jan. 2025

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“Riverboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/riverboat. Accessed 19 May. 2025.

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