ferryboat

Example Sentences

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Beset by financial hardship, in part because of a devastating injury in a ferryboat accident, Meucci was unable to afford the $10 fee to renew his caveat, which as a result expired.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

Dotted with details of her particular milieu — the ferryboat, the crepe shop, the rock show that leaves glitter in the eyelashes — “Monsters” is part memoir, part treatise and all treat.

From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2023

On the first floor of the museum, kids can explore a treehouse, captain a ferryboat and hop into the driver’s seat of a Smart car.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 18, 2023

The ferryboat Julia B., derisively dubbed the “flagship” of the “Arizona Navy” by a Times war correspondent assigned to cover the skirmish, promptly ran aground on a sandbar.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2023

Most of the big shore places were closed now and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of a ferryboat across the Sound.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald