towage

Example Sentences

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The brokerage sees the merger as creating Indonesia’s largest listed towage and pilotage platform.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

Do you believe in the utility of life, in the necessity of this endless chain, this towage of sufferings, to be prolonged for the most part after death?

From En Route by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)

An' if I was you, I'd find out how much o' this two thousand dollars' towage he's goin' to distribute to his crew.

From Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates by Grant, Gordon

It's up to the master of the tug very frequently whether, under such conditions, his task has been a mere towage job at the going rates or a salvage proposition to be settled in court.

From Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)

Had not salmon, of I know not how many pounds' weight, been played and brought to land by that slender towage.

From Wylder's Hand by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan