- present participle of board.
boarding
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Until this month, the resurrected Chevy Metal could only perform during Shane’s breaks from his boarding school on the East Coast, but he is newly graduated and ready to play.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
By 13, he was spending hours each day practicing alone in the basement at his boarding school.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
They made it to the gate as the plane to Brussels was boarding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
He was then seen disembarking Air Force One in the UK, before boarding his newer, Qatari-gifted jet and returning to the US.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
All my crab money, my boarding school money—to feed a pack of yowling, stinking cats.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
“But what we didn’t know until these boardings was what type of cyber risks were aboard these ships.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
Former Royal Navy warship commander Tom Sharpe told BBC Verify it was "utterly confusing" and "pathetic" that no boardings had been carried out.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
"The EU could support Member States in their efforts if they agree to grant the EU the right to negotiate agreements on their behalf for pre-authorised boardings for inspections."
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025
The route between downtown Los Angeles and Koreatown is one of Metro’s most heavily used with more than 65,000 daily boardings on average.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2025
When I live at Naples with my mother we let boardings, chiefly to Inglish and Amerigans.
From Max Carrados by Ernest Bramah
