ferryboat
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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
Mr. Erdogan, 70, grew up in Istanbul, where his father worked as a ferryboat captain.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2024
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
One of mine came in 1988, when I helped lead a Southwest Seattle Historical Society cruise to celebrate the first voyage of the City of Seattle, the first ferryboat on Puget Sound.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2022
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
The commission also oversees movers, brokers, ferryboats and wastewater.
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2026
The funding measure would spend billions on highways projects and maintenance, transit access, removing fish barriers, building new ferryboats and more.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2022
The ferryboats traced quiet paths out across the water as the moon rose, casting fragile sheets of light down on the waves.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2012
Above the skyline, to the north and west, mountains rise into a darkening sky as bathtub ferryboats chug past beneath them on still saltwater the color of slate.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2010
The ferryboats crossed the wide river without mishap, and the party from Boston stepped out onto the shore at Wethersfield.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
