steamboat
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of steamboat
Vocabulary lists containing steamboat
The Industrial Revolution - Introductory
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The Industrial Revolution - Middle School and High School
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Example Sentences
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The classic cartoon stars the beloved mascot as the whistling, rascally pilot of a steamboat floating down a river.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2024
So did Jean Sherrard and I. Indirectly, the needs and wants of us and our collective forebears are why this section of the Snoqualmie River hasn’t seen a paddle-driven steamboat in well over a century.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 15, 2023
Four years after completing her studies, Flora married Edwin Patterson of Ripley, Ohio, and they settled in nearby Cincinnati where he was a steamboat pilot.
From Scientific American • Jan. 26, 2023
Another law did the same for steamboat passengers.
From BBC • Oct. 11, 2022
At Pier 41 the transpacific ocean liner President Madison snapped her hawsers and careened into the steamboat Harvester, sinking her.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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