towage

Example Sentences

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The brokerage sees the merger as creating Indonesia’s largest listed towage and pilotage platform.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

We'll take all the cedar on your limit, in bolts on the river bank at market prices, less cost of towage to Vancouver.

From The Hidden Places by Sinclair, Bertrand W.

We paid twenty dollars for them two derelicts an' a dollar towage.

From Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates by Grant, Gordon

"And in return—" "I'll tear up the deadly document I extorted from Murphy and report a mere towage job to my owners."

From Cappy Ricks Or, the Subjugation of Matt Peasley by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)

Sailing-vessels, however, require only a short towage, the docks being scarcely a dozen miles from Chesapeake Bay.

From Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by Redway, Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw)