ABOARD in a Sentence

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For ABOARD, below is one of 46 sentences:
She had five big wigwams aboard, wide apart, and an open camp fire in the middle, and a tall flag-pole at each end.

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 Meanings and Examples of ABOARD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
aboard
 ad.  on a ship, train, plane or other vehicle; in or into a group, organization, or business
Classic Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1  The ferryboat was floating with the current, and I allowed I'd have a chance to see who was aboard when she come along, because she would come in close, where the bread did.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII.
2  I wanted to get aboard of her and slink around a little, and see what there was there.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII.
3  In another second I would a been aboard of her, but just then the door opened.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII.
4  It was the raft, and mighty glad was we to get aboard of it again.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII.
5  She had five big wigwams aboard, wide apart, and an open camp fire in the middle, and a tall flag-pole at each end.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI.
6  I told him they were out of sight, so he come aboard.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI.
7  Jim warn't on his island, so I tramped off in a hurry for the crick, and crowded through the willows, red-hot to jump aboard and get out of that awful country.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII.
8  I run along the bank a piece and got aboard, and Jim he grabbed me and hugged me, he was so glad to see me.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII.
9  They done it, and soon as they was aboard I lit out for our towhead, and in about five or ten minutes we heard the dogs and the men away off, shouting.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX.
10  The king never said nothing about going aboard, so I lost my ride, after all.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV.
11  But I didn't want to run the raft in the daytime without anybody aboard to answer questions but me; so I didn't want the plan to begin working till pretty late to-night.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII.
12  The station agent hoisted a dead calf aboard the baggage-car.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
13  It was now quite plain that he must be some abominable savage or other shipped aboard of a whaleman in the South Seas, and so landed in this Christian country.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
14  Come aboard, come aboard; never mind about the papers.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18. His Mark.
15  A day or two passed, and there was great activity aboard the Pequod.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20. All Astir.
Example Sentence:
1  One of them climbed aboard a soapbox and began informing the locals why gays should be allowed in the military.
2  The most junior executive officer outranked the senior engineer officer aboard ship.
3  They finally went aboard the plane.
4  He checked their names off as they went aboard the plane.
5  Jack has gone aboard the plane.
6  The ship falls aboard of a small boat.
7  Both the local workers' union and some of the foreign workers trapped aboard the rig have accused the management of Transocean of heavy handedness in its approach to resolving this dispute.
8  The electronics aboard the new aircraft are very sophisticated.
9  A wealthy heiress is murdered aboard a luxury cruise liner, and everyone's a suspect.
10  Though some Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower favored the establishment of a theocracy in New England, many of their fellow voyagers preferred a nonreligious form of government.
11  He did make some calls aboard Air Force One, we are told, on his way back to from the Azores.
12  Panama brushed aside North Korea's demands on Thursday that it release an impounded North Korean freighter and its 35-member crew, pressing criminal charges against all aboard for endangering public security.