How to Use riverboat in a Sentence

riverboat

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  • Here are five of the best riverboat (and lake and ocean) cruises in the state.
    — Avery Newmark, AccessAtlanta, 17 June 2022
  • Also in the video, someone appears to jump off the riverboat and swim to the dock to help the co-captain.
    — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
  • The tour, which takes six and a half hours, starts with a 35-minute train ride, followed by a two-hour riverboat cruise.
    — Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Reports at the time said the riverboat could hold up to 400 passengers.
    — Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The victims in the case are riverboat Pickett and a 16-year-old deckhand-in-training.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Musk is a riverboat pilot in his own right, like Twain before him.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 16 Oct. 2018
  • There’s also a touch-and-go bush pilot demonstration where the plane lands right next to the riverboat.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Your first trip to the Amazon was on a riverboat with a group of traveling players.
    — National Geographic, 9 Oct. 2016
  • More news to know now One more person has been charged in the Alabama riverboat brawl.
    — USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Policemen in riverboats patrolled the Nile in front of the embassy.
    — Bloomberg.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • The new meeting place, per a message sent to Helene's cell phone, is on a riverboat called the Dixie Queen.
    — Kat Rosenfield, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2022
  • Much of the online commentary has been around the fact that many Black bystanders rushed in to defend the riverboat crew.
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The riverboat departs at 7 p.m. Tickets are $35 and can be purchased online at hopehousescv.org or at the dock prior to the cruise.
    — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Huck working on a riverboat and Tom Sawyer settling Kansas made sense to me.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 8 Feb. 2022
  • The victims in the assaults were identified as Damien Pickett, the Black co-captain of the riverboat, and a 16-year-old White male.
    — Alta Spells, CNN, 8 Aug. 2023
  • But nothing compares to the magic of seeing an Old World city, a-sparkle after dark, from the deck of a riverboat.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2018
  • The boat's co-captain said he was attacked after moving the pontoon boat a few feet to make way for the riverboat.
    — CBS News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Barnette, his wife, and 130 tons of goods were loaded on a riverboat heading up the Tanana River.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 18 July 2021
  • The state wagering tax was based on two licenses for the city’s two riverboats.
    — Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Born in 1811 on a riverboat at a fishing village in Siam (as Thailand was then called), Chang and Eng were joined at the base of their chests by a band of flesh.
    — Yunte Huang, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The 15 other casinos in the state are located on riverboats.
    — Julia O'Donoghue, NOLA.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Goodbye moose flies, dunks in clear rivers, hot nights in the tent and tanned kids and their parents arriving by riverboat from fish camps on the Yukon.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 29 July 2017
  • It was also meant to include a riverboat ride straight under the casino.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 30 July 2021
  • More than 200 passengers on the riverboat waited for about a half hour as the captain and Pickett tried to get the boaters to move their vessel.
    — Julianne McShane, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Stroll the paved RiverWalk and glide off into the sunset on the Bama Belle, a paddlewheel riverboat.
    — National Geographic, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Today, the company runs two Plymouth 5-ton diesel trains, and a two-deck riverboat called the Hiawatha.
    — Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Several Black bystanders rushed in to help, including one who jumped off the riverboat and swam to shore.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Pickett noted the riverboat would not have been able to dock without hitting the smaller boat.
    — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN, 25 Sep. 2023
  • After the captain and Pickett attempted to persuade the rowdy group to move, Pickett untied the boat to make way for the riverboat, witnesses said, which prompted several of the private boaters to attack, Albert said.
    — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The others sponsor public lotteries, poker clubs, riverboat casinos at which Vegas-like games are on offer, or have made deals with Native American tribes for their own casinos.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2024

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