gangway

Example Sentences

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Without glancing back, he took the gangway up to the helipad.

From Slate • Dec. 16, 2023

“Typically, there should be water right where we’re standing,” he said, perched atop dry rocks on a metal gangway that leads to the floating pumphouse.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 19, 2023

On Wednesday morning one crewman carried an umbrella up the gangway that the migrants unsteadily walked down last week, some of them met by stretchers and health workers with foil blankets.

From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2023

After passing tight security and passing up the clanking gangway we meet our first passenger on the ferry that's going nowhere.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2023

They moved down the gangway, Mrs. Coulter leaning heavily on the guard.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman