ferry
noun
a commercial service with terminals and boats for transporting persons, automobiles, etc., across a river or other comparatively small body of water.
are ferrying
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present progressiveof ferry.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Ships are ferrying almost as much crude oil out of the Strait of Hormuz as they were before the Iran war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
The vast majority of the rockets, however, are ferrying satellites into orbit to support SpaceX’s private Starlink network, which provides internet services.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
Now under test in multiple cities, these self-driving taxis are designed to operate with no driver, and they are ferrying passengers in San Francisco and the Phoenix area.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
County officials said 70 percent of the time, those wheelchair-accessible taxis are ferrying people who don’t use wheelchairs.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2014
“The Marines are ferrying him home on a military transport, after a quick stop at Shake Shack for something called a Shack Stack and a concrete.”
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
