riverboat
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of riverboat
Example Sentences
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The stage was massive and was designed to look like a riverboat.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2025
A few years later I moved to Shreveport, where I worked at the daily newspaper and became intimately familiar with riverboat casino culture.
From Slate • Feb. 24, 2024
He was a central figure in the 1998 corruption case of Edwards, who was on trial for extortion and charged with demanding $400,000 from DeBartolo for a riverboat casino license.
From Washington Times • Dec. 28, 2023
Montgomery police said the brawl began when the white boaters refused to move their pontoon boat so the city-owned Harriott II riverboat could dock in its designated space.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 27, 2023
My favorite is the one he wrote about the six months he spent traveling in the Amazon by riverboat.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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