gangplank

Example Sentences

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Jack said he watched me until my feet disappeared over the gangplank …

From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2023

One outside Fort Worth built a gangplank 22 feet above an arcade floor — walk it if you dare.

From New York Times • May 31, 2023

Julia told an interviewer years later that Tyler picked her up and carried her across a gangplank to a rescue boat.

From Washington Post • Feb. 14, 2022

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

With newsreel cameras rolling and flashbulbs popping, the boys bounded up the gangplank and onto the Manhattan at ten thirty the next morning.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown