How to Use towboat in a Sentence

towboat

noun

• The next day, the ship limped into port with the aid of a towboat.
  — Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2019
• The towboats are now pushing up to 42 barges each, six wide, seven deep.
  — Paul Meincke, chicagotribune.com, 10 Aug. 2017
• But a new electric towboat nods toward a future that is both cleaner and more fun.
  — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 July 2021
• Coast Guard teams have now found five bodies in all after one survivor was found on Tuesday by a passing towboat in the area.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2022
• Delano oversees eight towboats and takes about 1,700 cases each year.
  — Elena Shao, SFChronicle.com, 29 Sep. 2019
• Some of his earliest and fondest memories are of growing up on a towboat.
  — Abbey Doyle, The Seattle Times, 25 Dec. 2017
• As Clemente captains the towboat, Salvatore Carta helps guide passengers and cars onboard the barge.
  — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 25 Sep. 2022
• Today, a towboat with barges of soybeans can push the equivalent of nine football fields down the Mississippi River.
  — WSJ, 17 Oct. 2017
• Josh, of Mount Vernon, is a fourth-generation towboat captain since 1997, working for years longer as a deckhand, on the water towing barges up and down the Ohio River.
  — Abbey Doyle, The Seattle Times, 25 Dec. 2017
• Twice a year, this towboat turns into a floating hotel and conference center to allow the public to vent to the seven people with power to chart the river's future.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 17 Mar. 2018
• What the train’s passengers didn’t know was that minutes before the derailment, the towboat MV Mauvilla was lugging six barges loaded with coal and cement up the river to Birmingham.
  — Marwa Eltagouri, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2018
• Not far from the mat-sinking unit, on a stifling summer day in Vicksburg, more than 100 people climbed aboard the nation's largest towboat, the M/V Mississippi, and took refuge in the air conditioning of the vessel's ornate meeting room.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 17 Mar. 2018
• Christian's mother Rae Andreacchio described her son as a hard worker who was on the verge of becoming one of the youngest towboat captains on the Mississippi and facing a long, successful career.
  — Emily Wichick, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2021
• That’s a hope that the barge industry has touted for decades, without clear examples that towboat traffic dramatically changes the dynamics.
  — Scott Canon, kansascity, 8 Aug. 2017
• And across Miami, towboat operators are being flooded with calls for help with vessels that Irma sent well below their waterlines.
  — Douglas Hanks, miamiherald, 13 Sep. 2017
• According to a statement from regional emergency officials, a barge being pulled by a towboat collided with a paddleboat carrying 16 people on a sightseeing tour.
  — Fox News, 13 June 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024