gondola

Example Sentences

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The gondola had just left the Trübsee station and was climbing the middle section of the mountain when the accident appears to have happened.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

Local officials accused Horning of backing out of a plan to help fund an overhaul of the iconic gondola connecting Telluride and Mountain Village—a free 12-minute ride that stitches the two towns together.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

He wrote that the actor Jack Nicholson once mistakenly called him one of the “Getty boys” at a party in a 16th-century palazzo in Venice where guests arrived via gondola.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2026

A plan to construct an estimated half-billion-dollar, 1.2-mile gondola from Union Station through Chinatown into Chavez Ravine by former Dodgers owner Frank McCourt took its first steps toward reality.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

Mosca swore that he hadn't stolen it from a gondola but had instead fished it from the canal behind the movie theater.

From "The Thief Lord" by Cornelia Funke