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ferry

[fer-ee] / ˈfɛr i /
NOUN
transportation boat
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In her hometown of Naoshima, visitors coming by ferry are greeted by her outdoor Red Pumpkin sculpture covered in bold, black polka dots.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

A town lawyer and Rowan reached a settlement that blessed the property as a restaurant, with some concessions from the private-equity billionaire, including a promise to never provide ferry access.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

Many passengers are surprised to see the medical teams waiting on the dock when their ferry arrives.

From Barron's Aug. 22, 2026

CalMac is the UK's largest ferry operator, running 29 routes across 200 miles of Scotland's west coast.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

I buttoned my jacket against the wind and concentrated on Captain Billy’s sons Edgar and Richard who had jumped ashore and were helping Otis tie up the ferry with graceful, practiced steps.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

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

The mainstream tanker market is shrinking as some ships are sold into the so-called shadow fleet that ferries sanctioned oil.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 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

In recent weeks, Ukraine has hit ferries, bridges and highways connecting Crimea and Russian-occupied mainland Ukraine with Russia.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 26, 2026

By late afternoon the Main Street wharf was crowded with people waiting for ferries to get them across the river to the observation train.

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

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

The container then ferried him to a smaller C-32A aircraft that flew him to Britain, while media and some officials were led to believe Trump was still on the bigger jet.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

Fast-spreading flames blackened the sky over the peninsula as tourists scrambled onto boats that ferried them to safety.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

Firefighters ferried in personnel, equipment and pallets of supplies by boat amid gusty winds and rough seas as they raced to save sensitive wildlife, including the continent’s rarest species of pine tree.

From Los Angeles Times May 18, 2026

It was just a slow, sludging green ribbon lawn that ferried fetid garbage to the sea.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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

High-speed boat trips ferrying tourists through the Aegean have become Odyssean voyages for some travelers.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

Warships designed for tasks including anti-submarine defences "are not best used for ferrying people around", he explained.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

Obviously, clambering up and down the dangerously steep pass, ferrying goods on horseback or by mule or — for a few wacky, experimental months in the mid-1850s, Army camels — wasn’t workable.

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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