gangplank
Example Sentences
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I didn’t need Dreyfuss to step off a spaceship gangplank and say, “I’m back.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
The couple was arrested on March 31, 2021, on the gangplank at Port Newark–Elizabeth Marine Terminal in New Jersey and held without bail.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2023
Julia told an interviewer years later that Tyler picked her up and carried her across a gangplank to a rescue boat.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 14, 2022
As the Canberra repatriated the PoWs to Puerto Madryn - the Welsh-speaking enclave of Argentina - in July 1982, a Navy photographer captured Irfon and Giorgio sharing a heartfelt goodbye handshake on the gangplank.
From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2022
The ratatoska bounded up the gangplank, a map in her mouth, and Nighthand hauled it up after her.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
