gangplank

Example Sentences

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Jack said he watched me until my feet disappeared over the gangplank …

From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2023

Up the wooden gangplank in a single-file line, nearly an entire Indigenous village squeezed onto the Aquidaban’s front deck.

From New York Times • Jun. 28, 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

A pair of customs men were clambering aboard as he went down the gangplank, but neither gave him so much as a glance.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin