gangplank
Example Sentences
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I didn’t need Dreyfuss to step off a spaceship gangplank and say, “I’m back.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
Jack said he watched me until my feet disappeared over the gangplank …
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
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
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
A thin man in khaki work clothes came out of a diminutive octagonal aerie and leaned over a steel gangplank.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
