How to Use riverboat in a Sentence

riverboat

noun

• 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 | [e-mail], al, 11 Aug. 2023
• The victims in the case are riverboat Pickett and a 16-year-old deckhand-in-training.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], 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
• This part of the Bourbon Trail has unique ways to see the area, including by bicycle or by riverboat.
  — Julia Eskins, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 June 2024
• 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
• It is surrounded by Rivers of America, home of the Liberty Belle riverboat attraction.
  — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2024
• Instead of a riverboat meal, Biles celebrated her gold medals with an American favorite.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 14 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024