ferry
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Some had taken two subways from Brooklyn to reach the ferry in Manhattan, chaperoned by playworkers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
One resident in Bab el-Mandeb village said much of that construction was done by the Emirates, whose contractors would ferry Southeast Asian construction workers to the island and provide them with food.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
A fire broke out on the deck of a truck ferry sailing north of Mykonos on September 25.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
We couldn’t afford to buy there, so I commuted by ferry for years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Captain Billy’s ferry, though much larger, drooped like an old waiting woman.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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The archipelago nation of 116 million has a long history of disasters involving the inter-island ferries that ply its seas.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Were Scotland's new gas-powered ferries a bad choice?
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Sophie Jansen, 33, of Amsterdam, travels to Greece over five times a year and has taken close to 100 island ferries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
The mainstream tanker market is shrinking as some ships are sold into the so-called shadow fleet that ferries sanctioned oil.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Miss Maggie said, “He can’t go to a hospital until the storm is over and the ferries are running.”
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
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Around 2,000 spectators are also expected to be ferried across a short stretch of water to the island which normally has a population of about 60.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Once in Britain, according to the New York Times, Trump was covertly ferried back to Air Force One as though he had been aboard the whole time.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
They ferried them on stretchers to waiting vehicles and ambulances near the entrance to the mine.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
These barrels were increasingly ferried out by ships that sailed “dark.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
At noon the men heaved the laden boat out on the backwash of a breaking wave, and the remainder of the stores was ferried out on the Stancomb Wills.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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Now the constant rumble of construction machinery has been replaced by a steady stream of vans and golf carts ferrying people to and from the paddock for this weekend's races.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
Reports about food and conditions on ship don’t grapple with the challenges of ferrying fresh lettuce into a combat zone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
The plane took off from Ankara 20 minutes later, ferrying the president, his entourage, and the journalists who had covered his trip.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
Warships designed for tasks including anti-submarine defences "are not best used for ferrying people around", he explained.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
I could be in the south of Spain, at the beach; I could be in Italy, the Cinque Terre, all those pretty coloured houses and the trains ferrying the tourists back and forth.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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