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ferry English

Meaning ferry meaning

What does ferry mean?
Definitions in simple English

ferry Noun

— A ferry is a boat that carries across a short stretch of water, usually going back and forth on the same route.

ferry Verb

— If you ferry people or things, you carry them for a short distance between places on a boat or other vehicle.

ferry

— verb transport from one place to another — verb transport by ferry — verb travel by ferry — noun a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule — noun transport by boat or aircraft

Synonyms ferry synonyms

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ferry English » English

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Topics ferry topics

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Transport

Conjugation ferry conjugation

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ferry · verb

Examples ferry examples

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Simple sentences

I'm waiting for the ferry.
There were not more than one hundred passengers on board the ferry.
They run a ferry service across the river.
They closed down the ferry service since it was no longer economical.
A ferry carrying hundreds of high school students sank in South Korea.
Many people died when a large South Korean ferry sank.
When's the last ferry?
It was the first time that Tom had ever been on a ferry.
We took a ferry from the island to the mainland.
A big wave turned the ferry over.
Tom is waiting for the ferry.
Tom offered to ferry us across the river in his boat.
I'll come by ferry.
Heavy rain throughout the night has hampered efforts to rescue survivors from the stricken ferry.
Could you go and find out when the ferry is going to leave?

Movie subtitles

All aboard for Dry Fork, Apache Wells Lee's Ferry and Lordsburg!
The soldiers there will give us an escort as far as the ferry.
We've got to make that ferry!
If you hadn't insisted on waiting for her we'd have been past the ferry by this time!
We may need that fight before we get to the ferry.
Well, folks, we're coming into Lee's Ferry now!
Curley, look! Look at the ferry!
One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in and on it there was a girl waiting to get off.
That's why I break these ferry trips up into short jumps.
First I want to find out. oh. here comes the ferry.
For my dough, the only safe run is the Staten Island ferry.
You'd look good on a Staten Island ferry.
South Ferry.
Only your tuppence, fiddler, for the crossing, and this ferry will be mine.
What does it help if you get the ferry in this village?
The old ferryman is dead, your ferry is no longer in service.
Don't forget: through the forest, across the moor, to the ferry house.
You must ferry me across.
If it hadn't been for the ferry, I alone couldn't have saved you.
Did you ferry a wounded rider across?
You already had this fellow in your ferry house this morning!
For my dough, the safe run is the staten island ferry.
You'd look good on a staten island ferry.
Picked him up at the Ferry Building.
Clean from the Ferry Building to the Pacific Ocean.
Weehawken ferry leaving in five minutes, connecting with all outgoing trains.
Now Curley if we can get across that ferry, we'll be all right.
Look at the ferry!
Five men will be on the dock, one man in each car on the ferry.
Somebody's gotta take Nolan down to Number 5 somebody else has to ferry that engineer down to Number 6.

News and current affairs

He added a dotted line, explaining that this was the only ferry connecting the island to the mainland.
His point was that Google was just like the ferry: the only way to navigate the Internet.
We are not a ferry, a railroad, a telecommunications network, or an electricity grid with only one line serving you and no competitors allowed.
Several SCO members are already assisting NATO countries to deliver supplies into Afghanistan, while Russia is allowing the United States to ferry military items across its border into Central Asia and onward to Afghanistan.
Unknown to the public, a government jet would ferry him to Egypt to spend weekends with his mistress and his illegitimate daughter.
Indeed, disaster has stalked South Korea this year, beginning in April with the sinking of the ferry Sewol, which claimed some 300 lives, most of them high school students.
As a general rule, though, Filipino ferry and ship passengers are poor and cannot afford the services of lawyers or the high filing fees demanded by the courts.

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