ferry
noun
a commercial service with terminals and boats for transporting persons, automobiles, etc., across a river or other comparatively small body of water.
was ferrying
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past progressiveof ferry.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Malhotra was ferrying his then-14-year-old daughter and her friends from Manhattan to Long Island, and listening from the driver’s seat to their myriad opinions on household brands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025
The wooden boat was ferrying people to Kwara state across a river from neighbouring Niger state after a wedding ceremony when it capsized on Monday night.
From Reuters ● Jun. 14, 2023
Who was ferrying him around and putting him up?
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2023
He quickly changed into street clothes, not even bothering to wash his face before he flagged down Konstantin Nikolayivich, the head mechanic, who was ferrying people out of the area with his car.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2022
They were building a cook fire, and a legless man, who propelled himself on a little cart, was ferrying vegetables to a large stew pot.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
