Example sentences for: ferryboats

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

  • The daily drama of ferryboats, freighters, junks with dirty grey sails, low-lying sampans — even small tankers and big gunboats — unfolds right in the center of town.

  • Just beyond the park on the other side, ferryboats depart regularly in summer for the barrier-island beaches of Armona and Culatra just offshore.

  • Tourists can cross the lakes in hand-poled ferryboats or drift at their own pace in a rowing boat.

  • Human-propelled ferryboats scurry out of the way as long trains of barges, their decks heaped up with onions, reeds, or bricks, labor past.

  • But life along the river is also fascinating: washerwomen squatting on the shore, water buffalo ambling down for a dip, the improvised ferryboats, and the captive cormorant birds, their necks ringed to prevent them from swallowing all their catch, waiting for orders to go fishing from bamboo rafts.


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