ferryboat
Americannoun
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ferryboats
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of ferryboat
First recorded in 1400–50, ferryboat is from the late Middle English word feryboot. See ferry, boat
Example Sentences
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Beset by financial hardship, in part because of a devastating injury in a ferryboat accident, Meucci was unable to afford the $10 fee to renew his caveat, which as a result expired.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
Mr. Erdogan, 70, grew up in Istanbul, where his father worked as a ferryboat captain.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2024
The ferryboat Julia B., derisively dubbed the “flagship” of the “Arizona Navy” by a Times war correspondent assigned to cover the skirmish, promptly ran aground on a sandbar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2023
One of mine came in 1988, when I helped lead a Southwest Seattle Historical Society cruise to celebrate the first voyage of the City of Seattle, the first ferryboat on Puget Sound.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2022
The ferryboat began its daily journeys from Smith's landing back and forth to the opposite shore.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
The commission also oversees movers, brokers, ferryboats and wastewater.
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2026
Beside the damaged causeway, volunteers ran ferryboats and small groups of residents formed at the boat ramp, the island’s new hot spot.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2022
The funding measure would spend billions on highways projects and maintenance, transit access, removing fish barriers, building new ferryboats and more.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 25, 2022
Most of them are teenage boys trying to sneak onto ferryboats to the mainland, where they hope to join family members or create a case for family reunification.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2018
As we steamed into the harbor, passengers on ferryboats waved their hats & handkerchiefs at us.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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