pontoon

Example Sentences

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"At one point he was lying asleep and was obviously a little too close to the edge and he rolled himself off the pontoon and into the water," she said.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

The last time, it was a Soviet-made pontoon bridge.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Rescue teams from Thursday used earth moving equipment on a pontoon to dredge a channel through the sand to allow the animal to escape.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

Fishing: At Trinity Lake, you can rent a deck boat, pontoon boat or houseboat and try your hand at catching large and smallmouth bass, rainbow trout and Kokanee salmon.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2025

And then finally somebody shouted and we all looked to see the steamboat towing the pontoon boat up the river.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman