Example sentences for: ferries

How can you use “ferries” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • So wide and treacherous is the river that, before the construction of the great concrete-and-steel bridge of Wuhan (the first to cross the Yangzi) in 1957, all communications depended on the ferries, which were often hampered by fog or flood.

  • Hong Kong has two major racetracks as well as an intensive off-track betting system, and on weekends the ferries to Macau are crowded with people on their way to the casinos.

  • Most commercial ferries arrive at a new port of Athinios further along the coast.

  • Every time the political establishment damned I-695 as reckless--warning of reduced police forces, cut public health services, dry-docked commuter ferries, abandoned bus routes, and super congested roads--Team Eyman just pointed to the $1 billion surplus.

  • Yet its average depth is less than 3 metres (10 feet); in winter it freezes over completely, while in summer the shallow water is subject to wind-driven waves, and when a storm blows up even the ferries call it a day.


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