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Recent Examples of towboat
The Wake Pro 230 was designed around being a towboat, for water-skiing, wakeboarding, or wake-surfing.
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Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 11 July 2025
In 2002, a freight barge struck a pier of Oklahoma’s Interstate 40 bridge after the towboat’s captain lost consciousness, collapsing a section of the bridge and killing 14.
—Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2025
According to her Forbes profile, Ingram Marine operates 5,000 barges and approximately 150 towboats on America's inland waterways.
—Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 11 Dec. 2024
Another Washington's treaty ally, Japan, reported that a submarine and a rescue towboat of Russia on December 3 were sailing northward in the waters between two of the country's southwestern islands , a marginal sea of the Western .
—Ryan Chan, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
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Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 11 July 2025
In 2002, a freight barge struck a pier of Oklahoma’s Interstate 40 bridge after the towboat’s captain lost consciousness, collapsing a section of the bridge and killing 14.
—Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2025
According to her Forbes profile, Ingram Marine operates 5,000 barges and approximately 150 towboats on America's inland waterways.
—Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 11 Dec. 2024
Another Washington's treaty ally, Japan, reported that a submarine and a rescue towboat of Russia on December 3 were sailing northward in the waters between two of the country's southwestern islands , a marginal sea of the Western .
—Ryan Chan, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for towboat
Noun
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An Inter-American Commission on Human Rights investigation in 1996 ruled that four boats belonging to the Cuban government attacked the tugboat.—
Terry Collins,
USA Today,
25 Feb. 2026
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The parents of the three Miami Yacht Club summer campers who were killed last summer when a 60-foot barge slammed into their sailboat sued the company that owns the barge and tugboat pushing the barge, alleging negligence and irresponsible hiring.—
David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
11 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The barge appeared to be standing still as boats on both sides of it fired water cannons into the piles of burning metal.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
10 Mar. 2026
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Scrap metal on a barge near the Volkswagen AG factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, on Tuesday, March 10, 2026.—
Sam Meredith,
CNBC,
10 Mar. 2026
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If a public request tugs at private feelings, pause to check your boundaries, then accept only what supports family rhythms and true priorities.—
Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
7 Mar. 2026
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His latest work treasures motion in both its study of dance music that straddles the 20th and 21st centuries and its gentle tug away from pure pop.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
6 Mar. 2026
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The explosion broke the ship's keel, sending tons of water gushing into the engine room and causing a massive fire that nearly destroyed the ship.—
Scott Neuman,
NPR,
12 Mar. 2026
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For a few years, Samson Fellows managed to keep himself on an even keel.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
11 Mar. 2026
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Blasetti is facing grand larceny charges for allegedly swiping a keelboat from the Dyckman Marina in Inwood around noon Saturday and rowed it to a trimaran moored out in the Hudson River.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
24 July 2025
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Most of the time, a small keelboat barely exceeds 10 knots of speed (11.5mph).—
Andrew Rice,
The Athletic,
13 Mar. 2025
Noun
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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
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One foggy morning this spring, a ferryboat traversed the choppy waters between lower Manhattan and Governors Island.—
Adam Iscoe,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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“Towboat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/towboat. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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