gangplank

Example Sentences

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I didn’t need Dreyfuss to step off a spaceship gangplank and say, “I’m back.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

The couple was arrested on March 31, 2021, on the gangplank at Port Newark–Elizabeth Marine Terminal in New Jersey and held without bail.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2023

Julia told an interviewer years later that Tyler picked her up and carried her across a gangplank to a rescue boat.

From Washington Post • Feb. 14, 2022

As the Canberra repatriated the PoWs to Puerto Madryn - the Welsh-speaking enclave of Argentina - in July 1982, a Navy photographer captured Irfon and Giorgio sharing a heartfelt goodbye handshake on the gangplank.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2022

Before the boat docks, the captain lowers the gangplank, hails a legionnaire patrolling nearby, and relieves him of his horse.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir