gangplank

Example Sentences

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Jack said he watched me until my feet disappeared over the gangplank …

From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2023

Up the wooden gangplank in a single-file line, nearly an entire Indigenous village squeezed onto the Aquidaban’s front deck.

From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2023

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

In a way, Harry and Meghan have done them a favor by jumping ship, rather than being asked to walk the gangplank.

From Salon • Nov. 4, 2021

Mapper’s hand wrapped around Magdalys’s as they shuffled up the gangplank with everyone else and stepped over the dark waters onto the ferry.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older