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ferry

[fer-ee] / ˈfɛr i /
NOUN
transportation boat
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He remembers a strobe light guiding the ferry into the port.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

Louis Chinal, 76, a retired New York City firefighter from Staten Island, recounted taking the Staten Island ferry to lower Manhattan after the South Tower had collapsed.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

The plan is to resume firefighting efforts, first from the cargo hold of the ferry, which is the compartment where containers and or goods are stored, Cayabyab said.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

"I was one of the people who carried and transported the casualties to the hospital last night," the first responder said, adding that the ferry was an hour away from its destination.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

It had taken Booth ten days to travel from Washington to the Port Conway ferry.

From "Chasing Lincoln's Killer" by James L. Swanson

The archipelago nation of 116 million has a long history of disasters involving the inter-island ferries that ply its seas.

From Barron's Sep. 11, 2026

It said the vessels - two small CalMac ferries, a fisheries research ship and a marine protection vessel - would provide a "bridge to the future" for the yard.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

Sophie Jansen, 33, of Amsterdam, travels to Greece over five times a year and has taken close to 100 island ferries.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

Down by her green toes, Melanie Griffith’s Staten Island secretary Tess McGill ferries to Manhattan to type memos for important men.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2026

“It ferries back and forth between here and Jahara.”

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

Once in Britain, according to the New York Times, Trump was covertly ferried back to Air Force One as though he had been aboard the whole time.

From Slate Aug. 11, 2026

Boats have ferried more than 400 people so far from the Cap Ferret peninsula that stretches along France's Atlantic coast west of the city of Bordeaux, city authorities said.

From Barron's Jul. 24, 2026

In December, Air Force officials announced a B-52 Stratofortress was ferried from Boeing’s San Antonio facility to Edwards Air Force Base after it was equipped with a new radar system.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2026

The ship has not docked directly in Tenerife - instead it is anchored out at sea and passengers are being ferried to Granadilla port, well away from residential areas.

From BBC May 11, 2026

The hotel guests were ferried across the backwaters, straight from Cochin.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

At a mid-range seafood restaurant in Taipei, packed with locals under swirling orange artwork, a squat robot server rolled between the tables ferrying dishes.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

But it’s also the school year, with every public school in the state open and parents already ferrying their children back and forth each day.

From Slate Aug. 25, 2026

Hilton joined others who have criticised the lack of transport infrastructure around the stadium, with the nearest train station a mile's walk away and shuttle buses ferrying fans from the city centre.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

By 1858, the famous Butterfield stagecoaches were ferrying the mail through the cut over the pass, hazarding a vertiginous angle comparable with San Francisco’s Lombard Street, without the switchbacks.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 2026

It was the Lincoln Special, ferrying our new president into the nation’s capital.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan




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