FERRY in a Sentence

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For FERRY, below is one of 24 sentences:
The strike has led to the cancellation of some ferry services and left hundreds of passengers stranded at the docks.

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 Meanings and Examples of FERRY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ferry
 n.  shuttle; transport by boat or aircraft
Classic Sentence:
1  You sit with the officials in the ferry boat.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
2  They reached a river that had overflowed its banks and which they had to cross by ferry.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XII
3  They crossed the ferry where he had talked with Pierre the year before.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I
4  Austerlitz with the lofty heavens, his wife's dead reproachful face, Pierre at the ferry, that girl thrilled by the beauty of the night, and that night itself and the moon, and.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III
5  He ran along the high road, took the path he had before taken, and reaching the ferry, interrogated the boatman.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 24 THE PAVILION
6  With a heavy heart, d'Artagnan again bent his way toward the ferry.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 24 THE PAVILION
7  Grimaud extended his arm, and by the bluish splendor of the fiery serpent they distinguished a little isolated house on the banks of the river, within a hundred paces of a ferry.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 65 TRIAL
8  The boat glided along the ferry rope under the shadow of a pale cloud which hung over the water at that moment.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 66 EXECUTION
9  MY nearest way to Yarmouth, in coming back from these long walks, was by a ferry.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
10  After strolling to the ferry looking for you, I strolled in here and found the place deserted.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE
11  I was away below the ferry now.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
12  They crossed the Minnesota River in a rowboat ferry.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
13  She had learned, on leaving her room, that Mrs. Dorset was still invisible, and that Dorset had left the yacht early; and feeling too restless to remain alone, she too had herself ferried ashore.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
Example Sentence:
1  They say that they lack both the money and the resources to deploy officials across the country to assess the safety of each and every ferry.
2  The government's decision to impose restrictions on ferry sailings is intended to stop vessels from operating when the weather is at its most volatile.
3  He threaded his way back to the ferry landing, found nobody at large there, and walked boldly on board the boat, for he knew she was tenantless except that there was a watchman, who always turned in and slept like a graven image.
4  I made the land about a mile below, and been fooling along ever since, trying to get people to do something, but they said, "What, in such a night and such a current? There ain't no sense in it; go for the steam ferry".
5  We're going across to France by/on the ferry.
6  He stowed away on a ferry and landed in North Shields.
7  The ferry service has been suspended for the day because of bad weather.
8  The strike has led to the cancellation of some ferry services and left hundreds of passengers stranded at the docks.
9  Troops could be ferried in to interdict drug shipments.
10  Since e-bikes have been added to the mix, the term granny-pace has a whole new meaning as riders -often the elderly or parents ferrying children- overtake young racers without breaking a sweat.
11  His was the last in a flotilla of boats ferrying guests from the five-star Hotel Cipriani on an island opposite St. Mark's Square, where the groom's wedding party have been staying.