ferry
noun
a commercial service with terminals and boats for transporting persons, automobiles, etc., across a river or other comparatively small body of water.
ferried
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past participleof ferry.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof ferry.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
ferrynouna commercial service with terminals and boats for transporting persons, automobiles, etc., across a river or other comparatively small body of water.
Example Sentences
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Earlier this month, more than 300 fans attended an official Ali G lookalike competition, ferried around London on an open-top bus that stopped at landmarks including Big Ben, Leicester Square and Covent Garden.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
Once in Britain, according to the New York Times, Trump was covertly ferried back to Air Force One as though he had been aboard the whole time.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
Boats have ferried more than 400 people so far from the Cap Ferret peninsula that stretches along France's Atlantic coast west of the city of Bordeaux, city authorities said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
Near her chair, an escalator ferried people to and from the station’s lowest level, 230 feet underground.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
They gave burial to the piteous dead, or bore the bodies of voung men from other islands down to the port, thence to be ferried home.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
