Example Sentences

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They were boarding a whale safari boat tour when they learned their flight the following day had been canceled.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 28, 2025

The death happened just after 7 a.m., as inmates from one of the downtown jails were boarding a bus headed to court.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2025

The incident took place on 11 January when commandos were boarding a ship off the coast of Somalia.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2024

Since April, an average of 20 youth were boarding every day at hospitals in Western Washington, according to a system hospitals use to share bed capacity information.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 18, 2022

Townsend had discovered that about 8,000 Redcoats were boarding ships to sail to Newport, where they would launch an attack on the French troops.

From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen