gondola

Example Sentences

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By year’s end, the Los Angeles City Council is expected to vote on McCourt’s gondola project, estimated to cost $500 million and proposed as privately financed.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

"I was really shocked. We were then afraid to go back down in the gondola," the 14-year-old told the Blick website.

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

I crawled down between the gondola and the shelter of the high freight-car behind.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway