gangplank
Example Sentences
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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
We’re basically going to walk out on the gangplank, and we’re going to give ourselves no options.’
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2021
As the king comes down the gangplank the light breaks through a last time, and his white figure and the great arch stand out a moment vivid and splendid against the storm-darkened south.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
