ferryboat
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Their pleasant mating call, Mr. de Greef writes, sounds like “a distant ferryboat whistle.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
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
I was watching a ferryboat waddle on the river when I heard a man with a slight British accent say, “Where have you been? I’ve been looking all over for you.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2021
The old flatbed ferryboat had been functional just the day before, the commerçant claimed, but now it bobbed listlessly on the opposite shore in spite of his piercing whistles and waving arms.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
The commission also oversees movers, brokers, ferryboats and wastewater.
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2026
“These ferryboats, to get them up to high speed, have fairly large diesel engines in them,” he said of Kitsap Transit’s current fleet.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2022
Most of them are teenage boys trying to sneak onto ferryboats to the mainland, where they hope to join family members or create a case for family reunification.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2018
When Northam was born in 1959, the area was connected to the rest of Virginia only by ferryboats; the 20-mile Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel linked the region to Norfolk in 1964.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2017
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
