How to Use steamboat in a Sentence

steamboat

noun

• Des Arc was a thriving steamboat stop by the start of the Civil War.
  — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2020
• The obelisk at his grave was shipped by steamboat from New Orleans.
  — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2020
• In the 1840s, tourists came to stay at an inn near the spring, bathe in its waters and take steamboat rides on the St. Johns River.
  — Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 31 Dec. 2021
• Minnie Mouse was seen in the film as well, hurrying along to catch the steamboat.
  — Tim Darnell, ajc, 15 Nov. 2019
• First launched in 1815, the paddlewheel steamboat Phoenix was the second of its kind to sail on the body of water.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Sep. 2020
• The waterfront was jammed with steamboats awaiting their turn at the wharf.
  — Jeff Suess, Cincinnati.com, 20 Sep. 2017
• Some say that as early as 1860, it was used by the steamboat Texarkana, which traveled the Red River.
  — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 8 Aug. 2020
• The university sold the steamboat in 1967, but kept the calliope.
  — Carole Carlson, Post-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2018
• The first boathouse was built in 1884 to shelter a steamboat for the nearby Soudan Underground Mine.
  — Jenna Ross Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
• The line ran from Providence to the steamboat wharf in Stonington in 1832.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 6 July 2018
• The park grew in popularity and added its steamboat to ferry guests to and from the park.
  — Charles Infosino, Cincinnati.com, 12 June 2020
• The sisters took a steamboat ride from the Seventh Street wharf down the Potomac to the estate, which at that time was run-down and ramshackle.
  — Eddie Dean, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2020
• Pretty girls pilot the tramways to the main entrance, where guest then select from a monorail, steamboat or tramway for the trip to the theme park.
  — Roger Simmons, orlandosentinel.com, 1 Oct. 2021
• There, a steamboat chugs along beneath a cloudless azure sky.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 30 June 2018
• The second shot is also of the CCC, though from a different angle, with a steamboat in the foreground.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 7 Feb. 2018
• Hafner will build the boat dock along the public landing just east of the steamboat monument.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 16 Dec. 2021
• The castle was built in the 1850s by the Kennett family, who were involved in lead mining and in the steamboat business.
  — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2020
• Before his death, the pandemic cost Hill his job as a porter on a tourist steamboat, his mother said.
  — Ramon Antonio Vargas, NOLA.com, 1 Jan. 2021
• From outside, through the loosely slapped-together boards of the frame building, came the hoots and howls of steamboat whistles.
  — John Dos Passos, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
• A steamboat whistle attached to the boiler room for morning wake-up call.
  — Kristina Goetz, The Courier-Journal, 20 July 2017
• But by April 25, the weather had turned fine in St. Louis, where the steamboat Omega stood alongside the wharf, its bow pointed upriver.
  — William Souder, Smithsonian, 23 Feb. 2018
• The program will include rides on the steamboat, talks about the history of steam power and the science behind it.
  — Carole Carlson, chicagotribune.com, 4 Dec. 2020
• Chippewa Lake Park opened in 1878 with picnic grounds and a beach, followed soon by the park’s first rollercoaster and a steamboat.
  — Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 13 Feb. 2021
• In photos from the event, the newlyweds are shown embracing aboard a steamboat.
  — Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, 27 Aug. 2017
• Telling point in all of this: Meaher and the judge were so close that Meaher had named a steamboat after the judge long before the Clotilda voyage.
  — al, 27 Jan. 2022
• In one year the number of steamboats operating in New York waters rose from six to 43, while fares fell by 40%.
  — John Steele Gordon, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2018
• The explosion of the steamboat Moselle near Cincinnati’s riverfront.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 30 Oct. 2022
• Just before the third bell tolled to signal the steamboat’s launch, Williamson, Still and five black dock workers rushed towards Jane Johnson.
  — Carrie Hagen, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2020
• Completed in April 1856, it was destroyed soon after, rammed by the steamboat Effie Afton.
  — Peter Kujawinski, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2017
• The company's flagship, the American Queen, is said to be the world's biggest steamboat.
  — Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 23 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024