- present participle of board.
boarding
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As for Arnold, he lived with his grandparents in an old boarding house under a freeway overpass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Wearing a clerical collared shirt, Boateng moves through rows of buses loading passengers before boarding one bound for Kumasi, Ghana's second-largest city.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
But when it was time for priority boarding she was on the phone with a couple of employees so I had to stand up to catch her attention.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
It meant there was no network TV footage of Trump boarding Air Force One or arriving in New York to attend the UN general assembly.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Eventually, the lady calls out some stuff about boarding first class and military personnel.
From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya
The drop of more than 3.7 million boardings last year was due in part to the immigration sweeps that began at the beginning of the month, so numbers were expected to be higher this year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Former Royal Navy warship commander Tom Sharpe told BBC Verify it was "utterly confusing" and "pathetic" that no boardings had been carried out.
From BBC ● May 12, 2026
The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, which is in the Arabian Sea, could serve as a base of operations for boardings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
Several warships remain in the Caribbean, and Coast Guard teams are in position to conduct more boardings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
When I live at Naples with my mother we let boardings, chiefly to Inglish and Amerigans.
From Max Carrados by Ernest Bramah
