riverboat

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Recent Examples of riverboat Tapping into the city's riverboat gambling history at on-land casinos and attending annual festivals celebrating literature, film, and music are also big draws. Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 22 Apr. 2026 Babu immediately fell into the flow, picking a nap chair in the bow and inquiring about the riverboat’s construction. Kathryn Romeyn, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Mar. 2026 Belmond plans to launch the elegant riverboat in Burgundy, France, in late summer. Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 17 Mar. 2026 The Downtown Little Rock Partnership and the Argenta Downtown Council partnered to schedule the riverboat visit so the boat's operator, Memphis Riverboats, could test the Central Arkansas market. Arkansas Online, 31 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for riverboat
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Noun
  • Among the lots are a $150,000 David Yurman diamond bracelet, a Nile cruise for up to six guests on Christian Louboutin’s houseboat, and a safari for up to a dozen people at a game refuge in South Africa.
    Miles Socha, Footwear News, 26 May 2026
  • Based on a viral short film, the movie features Martin Freeman and Susie Porter as a couple who have commandeered a houseboat to evade hordes of rapacious undead.
    K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • The hotel also acquired a Riva motorboat, one of 18 of its kind in the world, that ferries guests on lake cruises before returning to the Carbone Riviera dock.
    Winston Ross, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
  • The boat, a 39-foot Sea Ray Cabin motorboat, was anchored at the Haulover sandbar with 13 passengers on board, according to a new report from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC).
    Peter D'Oench, CBS News, 15 May 2026
Noun
  • These are all places where anglers, waterskiers, and other lake users have been running powerboats for more than 100 years.
    Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Some powerboat rentals will operate from a dock farther east, with shuttles taking customers out.
    Spencer Wilson, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The nautical equipment still featured the aluminum fishing boat, but the impossible tub was long gone, replaced by a pontoon boat, a real one.
    Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 30 May 2026
  • Juan Carlos Garcia-Guitierrez of Lancaster had been in a pontoon boat on the lake before jumping into the water for a swim.
    Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 25 May 2026
Noun
  • Massachusetts State Police Trooper Jamie Magarian was injured when a truck struck his cruiser.
    Louisa Moller, CBS News, 28 May 2026
  • At dusk, one of Ihor’s fellow police officers pulled onto the square in a cruiser.
    James Verini, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Although San Francisco Bay is cold, the fitness icon Jack La Lanne once swam to the island pulling a rowboat, and several children also made the swim.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2026
  • On high-water days, tourists board a rowboat ferry for the two-minute trip.
    Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • In the video, the animal jumps out of the water and lands on the front of the canoe, splashing several paddlers.
    Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 29 May 2026
  • On the river, two 10-metre canoes are strapped together, holding a truck and powered by a single outboard motor.
    Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 27 May 2026

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“Riverboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/riverboat. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.

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