Example Sentences

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The commission also oversees movers, brokers, ferryboats and wastewater.

From Salon • Jan. 1, 2026

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

When Northam was born in 1959, the area was connected to the rest of Virginia only by ferryboats; the 20-mile Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel linked the region to Norfolk in 1964.

From Washington Post • Oct. 24, 2017

Suddenly in the dark between the ferryboats I spied the gentle rise and fall of a yellow raft.

From Slate • Jul. 6, 2012

The ferryboats crossed the wide river without mishap, and the party from Boston stepped out onto the shore at Wethersfield.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare