gangplank

Example Sentences

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Up the wooden gangplank in a single-file line, nearly an entire Indigenous village squeezed onto the Aquidaban’s front deck.

From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2023

The couple was arrested on March 31, 2021, on the gangplank at Port Newark–Elizabeth Marine Terminal in New Jersey and held without bail.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2023

As the Canberra repatriated the PoWs to Puerto Madryn - the Welsh-speaking enclave of Argentina - in July 1982, a Navy photographer captured Irfon and Giorgio sharing a heartfelt goodbye handshake on the gangplank.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2022

In a way, Harry and Meghan have done them a favor by jumping ship, rather than being asked to walk the gangplank.

From Salon • Nov. 4, 2021

When she saw the dwarf standing at the end of the gangplank, Ysilla stopped so suddenly that Yandry blundered into her, and the pike almost slid off her back into the river.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin