steamboat

Example Sentences

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The idea, in its early conceptions, included much of what would later make its way to Disneyland — a train, a steamboat and less detailed versions of Main Street and a Frontierland.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2025

Four years after completing her studies, Flora married Edwin Patterson of Ripley, Ohio, and they settled in nearby Cincinnati where he was a steamboat pilot.

From Scientific American • Jan. 26, 2023

Previously, travelers had to take a canoe, steamboat, sailboat or train.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 26, 2022

Another law did the same for steamboat passengers.

From BBC • Oct. 11, 2022

My favorite is the picture of a steamboat churning up the Mississippi.

From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes