pontoon

Example Sentences

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Another officer then confirmed an investigation into using pontoons had been approved.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

Despite experts warning that trying to save the creature would only cause it more pain, two multi-millionaires then jumped in with an elaborate rescue plan involving inflatable cushions and pontoons.

From Barron's • Apr. 23, 2026

There are no pleasure boats on our stretches of the Mississippi — no party pontoons or families pulling wakeboarders behind rented powerboats.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2023

Wolf says his favorite part of the Evergreen Point story is how the pontoons that support the bridge were constructed in Aberdeen and Tacoma and floated to the bridge site.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 23, 2022

Above them, suspended from a wire, a tinplate clockwork aquaplane with wooden pontoons and a rotating propeller makes an electric, hypnotizing orbit.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr