Ferries can be categorized as a noun and a verb.
Verb |
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| ferry - transport by ferry | ||
| ferry - travel by ferry | ||
| ferry - transport from one place to another | ||
Noun |
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| ferry - a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule | ||
| ferry - transport by boat or aircraft |
| # | Sentence | ||
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| 1. | noun | A school bus ferries students between the station and the campus. | |
| 2. | noun | The ferries are powered solely by the natural current of the Rhine. | |
| 3. | noun | New ferries for Canada are being built in Poland and Germany after the European contractors undercut the bids offered by three Canadian shipyards. | |
| 4. | noun | Rare pink dolphins are returning to the waters between Hong Kong and Macau after the coronavirus pandemic halted ferries. | |
| 5. | noun | We took a ferry from the island to the mainland. | |
| 6. | noun | We had a rough crossing on an old ferry. | |
| 7. | noun | The ferry started to move and we were across in half an hour. | |
| 8. | noun | There were not more than one hundred passengers on board the ferry. | |
| 9. | noun | They run a ferry service across the river. | |
| 10. | noun | We took the cross-channel ferry from Dover to Calais. | |
| 11. | noun | A big wave turned the ferry over. | |
| 12. | noun | They closed down the ferry service since it was no longer economical. | |
| 13. | noun | The army had no men near Harpers Ferry. | |
| 14. | noun | He was caught by the police three days later trying to board a ferry to France with a suitcase containing £50,000. | |
| 15. | noun | In the morning I'm taking the first ferry to Greece. | |
| 16. | verb | Tom offered to ferry us across the river in his boat. | |
| 17. | verb | In 2014, SpaceX and Boeing received contracts for $2.6 billion and $4.2 billion, respectively, to develop space capsules that can ferry astronauts to and from the space station. | |
| 18. | verb | Tom offered to ferry us across the river in his boat. | |
| 19. | verb | In 2014, SpaceX and Boeing received contracts for $2.6 billion and $4.2 billion, respectively, to develop space capsules that can ferry astronauts to and from the space station. |
| Sentence | |
|---|---|
| noun | |
| A school bus ferries students between the station and the campus. | |
| The ferries are powered solely by the natural current of the Rhine. | |
| New ferries for Canada are being built in Poland and Germany after the European contractors undercut the bids offered by three Canadian shipyards. | |
| Rare pink dolphins are returning to the waters between Hong Kong and Macau after the coronavirus pandemic halted ferries. | |
| We took a ferry from the island to the mainland. | |
| We had a rough crossing on an old ferry. | |
| The ferry started to move and we were across in half an hour. | |
| There were not more than one hundred passengers on board the ferry. | |
| They run a ferry service across the river. | |
| We took the cross-channel ferry from Dover to Calais. | |
| A big wave turned the ferry over. | |
| They closed down the ferry service since it was no longer economical. | |
| The army had no men near Harpers Ferry. | |
| He was caught by the police three days later trying to board a ferry to France with a suitcase containing £50,000. | |
| In the morning I'm taking the first ferry to Greece. | |
| verb | |
| Tom offered to ferry us across the river in his boat. | |
| In 2014, SpaceX and Boeing received contracts for $2.6 billion and $4.2 billion, respectively, to develop space capsules that can ferry astronauts to and from the space station. | |
| Tom offered to ferry us across the river in his boat. | |
| In 2014, SpaceX and Boeing received contracts for $2.6 billion and $4.2 billion, respectively, to develop space capsules that can ferry astronauts to and from the space station. | |