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 ferryboat Julia B., derisively dubbed the “flagship” of the “Arizona Navy” by a Times war correspondent assigned to cover the skirmish, promptly ran aground on a sandbar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2023
They also lent their manpower to the Deception Pass Bridge, which opened in 1935 over the protests of Berte Olson, Puget Sound’s first female ferryboat captain, who held rights to the route.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2022
At Lake Tinn, the train cars would be loaded onto a ferryboat.
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
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
When Northam was born in 1959, the area was connected to the rest of Virginia only by ferryboats; the 20-mile Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel linked the region to Norfolk in 1964.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2017
The moon was rising over the Sound, climbing the night sky like an ascendant soul; below, the ferryboats traced silent, tentative paths through the water.
From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2012
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
