ferryboat
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Beset by financial hardship, in part because of a devastating injury in a ferryboat accident, Meucci was unable to afford the $10 fee to renew his caveat, which as a result expired.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
Dotted with details of her particular milieu — the ferryboat, the crepe shop, the rock show that leaves glitter in the eyelashes — “Monsters” is part memoir, part treatise and all treat.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2023
The Spokane ferryboat, which just recently celebrated its 50th birthday, broke down while docked in the Edmonds Ferry Terminal.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 30, 2022
With the death of his parents in a ferryboat fire, Norwegian author Per Petterson is consumed with the notion of family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2022
Most of the big shore places were closed now and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of a ferryboat across the Sound.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The commission also oversees movers, brokers, ferryboats and wastewater.
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2026
The Sinking Ferry Mailbox NECESSITY, PLEASURE, FUN and even folly define the network of ferryboats traversing the Puget Sound.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
The ferryboats traced quiet paths out across the water as the moon rose, casting fragile sheets of light down on the waves.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2012
Above the skyline, to the north and west, mountains rise into a darkening sky as bathtub ferryboats chug past beneath them on still saltwater the color of slate.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2010
As we steamed into the harbor, passengers on ferryboats waved their hats & handkerchiefs at us.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
