How to Use ferry in a Sentence

ferry

1 of 2 verb
Definition of ferrynext
Synonyms for ferrynext
  • The cars were ferried across the river.
  • They ferry supplies to the island.
  • The liquor, like the food and firewood piled in the corner, is ferried in on the back of a haul sled.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2023
  • When Ukrainian boats tried to ferry help from the right bank to the left, the Russians opened fire.
    — Anna Nemtsova, The Atlantic, 16 June 2023
  • The boat was still in sight of the island, and the Coast Guard ferried the group to the ship, but the captain denied them entry.
    — Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 3 Apr. 2024
  • In the morning, a tourist boat spotted the three survivors and ferried them to a nearby town.
    — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Penguins morphed to Harlequins ferried by the bushel to and from the Strand.
    — Jane Shore, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • Some boats will drop pots for cod or serve as tender boats to ferry fish back to port.
    — Hal Bernton, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Now two local teens have gotten the green light to ferry them by golf cart.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2023
  • Children wait beside the road for buses to ferry them on a long commute to school.
    — Seiji Yamashita, ABC News, 18 July 2023
  • These winds will ferry rounds of heavy rain to most of the city this morning, along with the risk for isolated thunderstorms.
    — Claire Hao, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Ice Spice surveyed a tray of burgers, which were ferried around the room by servers, before opting to pass for the moment.
    — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 11 Mar. 2024
  • When firefighters arrived, the employees used golf carts to ferry them to the crash site.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
  • These rivers in the sky can stretch for hundreds of miles, ferrying moist air from the tropics northeastward.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2024
  • After Avatar wrapped, Cameron built a submarine that could ferry him to the deepest place in the sea, the bottom of the Mariana Trench, in 2012.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Starship will ferry two of the four-person Artemis crew from Orion to the lunar surface, then back to Orion for the ride home.
    — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Bottles of soda were being ferried back and forth and mixed with vodka.
    — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • It gets paired with proteins and hitches a ride on them so it can get ferried throughout your bloodstream.
    — Amy Norton, SELF, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Four men ferry a white horse across a river on an English summer’s day.
    — Dominic Green, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The duck boats, first fielded in World War II, were originally meant to ferry troops to shore—then drive inland.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2023
  • They were ferried by a front loader to FedEx trucks adorned with giant-panda decals.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The goal of the mission is to ferry Dyson to the station for a six-month tour of duty and to deliver a fresh Soyuz for Kononenko and Chub, who are midway through a yearlong stay in space.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Large ships will dock at the pier and offload their cargo to smaller vessels, which would ferry shipments to the causeway and from there into Gaza.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2024
  • The air will feel a little humid throughout the day as puffy clouds from the Pacific Ocean are ferried into the west side by prevailing winds from the west.
    — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2023
  • With the urgency of climate change adding fuel to the fire, Prentice thinks the single largest market for airships is to ferry goods across oceans.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Then the aid would be loaded into trucks that would drive onto U.S. Army boats and be ferried to a separate temporary pier fixed to the shore.
    — Carol E. Lee, NBC News, 23 Mar. 2024
  • These sites can ferry messages between exes who have to, say, co-parent.
    — Reyhan Harmanci, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2022
  • In the ossuary, on the roof of the tunnel, there is a black line painted on the ceiling so modern-day guides can ferry curious Parisians in and out of this wet underworld.
    — Ingrid Rojas Contreras, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The rocket is waiting for that perfect moment to fire up its engine and ferry the sat to its correct orbit.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2022
  • On Earth, your body maintains your blood pressure such that enough oxygen reaches your organs and waste is ferried away.
    — Kim Tingley, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
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ferry

2 of 2 noun
  • We'll meet you at the ferry.
  • You can get there by ferry.
  • Ferries to both islands depart daily.
  • Crews brought the body on board the ferry around 8:30 p.m.
    — Fox 19 Digital Staff, The Enquirer, 25 Apr. 2023
  • The ferry trawled alongside the western coast of Athos.
    — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2024
  • How much of each side of the ferry is filled with water?
    — WIRED, 29 Sep. 2023
  • The inn is steps from the dock for the Frances Barkley, a ferry that sails along Alberni Inlet.
    — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The Alaska-class ferry project was first conceived in 2006.
    — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 24 May 2023
  • Hydra, which is about a four-hour ferry ride from Athens, is no stranger to the music scene.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Luckily, a 45-minute ferry from Woods Hole makes the journey a breeze.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The cute port town of Kas on the Turkish coast is only a 30-minute ferry ride from Kastellorizo.
    — Rachel Howard, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Jackson Harbor is on the opposite side of the island as the ferry dock, about 8 miles away.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Journal Sentinel, 11 May 2023
  • Visitors can reach the island via a 30-minute ferry ride from the mainland.
    — Adrienne Jordan, Travel + Leisure, 3 Mar. 2023
  • During the ferry ride, pods of common dolphins crossed the boat’s path, leaping and playing in its wake.
    — Robert Annis, Travel + Leisure, 8 Oct. 2023
  • When the ferry docked, a second, larger brawl ensued, with one man wielding a deck chair.
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Last year, a ferry owned by Grimaldi caught fire off the Greek island of Corfu on its way to Italy, killing 11 people.
    — Elise Young, New York Times, 6 July 2023
  • Charter your own boat or hop aboard the Yankee Freedom ferry for a ride out to paradise.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 29 Nov. 2023
  • From Canal Street, the $2 ferry crosses the river to Algiers Point in 30 picturesque minutes.
    — Lanee Lee, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
  • In a series of photos, the massive gator lazes by the shore, just a ferry ride away from nearby Galveston's sandy beaches.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2023
  • With no airport on the island, Sifnos is only reachable by boat or ferry.
    — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Videos showed people hurrying out of the ferry’s cabin while putting on life vests, as thick black smoke swept across the ferry.
    — TIME, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Out on the water, ferries shuttle back and forth across the narrow Strait of Gibraltar to the coastline of southern Spain, just 30 short minutes away.
    — James Montague Samuel Aranda, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2023
  • The ferry Issaquah was shifted to the Bremerton route Sunday.
    — David Kroman, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The ferry runs daily between May 5 and October 22 this year.
    — Sarah Volpenhein, Journal Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Accessible by air or sea, the hotel is a 75-minute flight from Glasgow or a scenic, five-hour ferry ride from Oban.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 1 Aug. 2023
  • While there are a number of ferries that travel back and forth, there has never been a drivable route from the island to the Italian mainland.
    — Justin Klawans, The Week, 8 May 2023
  • Traveling from Boston to Nantucket is a two-hour drive and a one-hour high-speed ferry.
    — Chuck Collins, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The port of Roscoff, the ferry’s destination, is in the French department of Finistère, in the westernmost part of Brittany.
    — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The barges announce their approach through the city via the ferries’ navigation systems.
    — Sue Wunder, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2023
  • In 2001, a ferry service was launched between Kinmen and Xiamen, the closest city on the Chinese coast.
    — Eric Cheung, CNN, 29 Feb. 2024

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