Example sentences for: riverboat

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

  • Racetracks are getting clocked by casinos, lotteries, riverboat gambling, and slot machines.

  • Jeremy Margolis, who headed the Illinois State Police when the state introduced 13 riverboat casinos, has testified that "crime has not been a problem."

  • On Maple Street, a no less handsome statue of Gassy Jack, a distinctly derelict-looking riverboat captain known to his mother as John Deighton, stands on a whisky barrel symbolizing the drinks he served to lumbermen, persuading them to build the town in 1867.

  • Here, the wail of riverboat foghorns mingles with train whistles on the nation’s main north-south railway.

  • In the Midwest, riverboat casinos can be an economic boon but sometimes suck local retail businesses dry.


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