gondola

Example Sentences

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It’s hard to sell Chinatown businesses on the benefits of the gondola when fans would ride between Union Station and Dodger Stadium, soaring over Chinatown.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

The gondola service is normally suspended when winds climb above 60km/h.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

Local officials accused Horning of backing out of a plan to help fund an overhaul of the iconic gondola connecting Telluride and Mountain Village—a free 12-minute ride that stitches the two towns together.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

He wrote that the actor Jack Nicholson once mistakenly called him one of the “Getty boys” at a party in a 16th-century palazzo in Venice where guests arrived via gondola.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2026

The video loop made the Rotunda Reading Room feel as if it were a gondola gently swaying beneath a motley-colored airship drifting along on a warm breeze.

From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein