How to Use tugboat in a Sentence

tugboat

noun

• She was placed on a barge and pulled to sea by tugboat.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2022
• Then the team had a tugboat tow it out to an offshore site.
  — John Fialka, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2020
• Covert is retired from the Navy, sailing the world on a tugboat.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2022
• The bridge stands about 25 feet above the water, which is why even the tugboats couldn’t fit beneath it.
  — Paul Berger, WSJ, 2 June 2018
• The crew detached the tugboat from the barge to break ice and forge a path back toward the Kuskokwim River.
  — Greg Kim, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2021
• It had been brought down the river from a quarry by one of three METS tugboats.
  — Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• This improves safety on board both the vessel and the tugboat.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2020
• They in turn will be led by tugboats, which can better steer at low speed.
  — Steve Mollman, Quartz, 8 June 2019
• One of the tugboats, the Eric McAllister, turned around and raced back toward the ship.
  — Mike Baker, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
• There was a tugboat shooting water with a fire hose and the Twin Towers in the background.
  — Jessica Matlin, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Sep. 2021
• So, yes, while the 1 weighs like a tugboat, much of that mass is slung deep and square in the midst of four insanely grippy tires.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2020
• In 2012, Kuznetsov broke down off the coast of France and had to be taken under tow by a Russian navy tugboat.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 June 2022
• After striking the buoy, the boat hit a tugboat, took on water and capsized, Cross said.
  — Jean Marbella, baltimoresun.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• But the neighborhood changed, and in 1964 the members put the clubhouse on a barge, crewed up a tugboat and floated the club to China Basin.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 9 Nov. 2019
• Currence’s first kitchen job was cooking for a crew on a tugboat in the Gulf of Mexico.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 21 Jan. 2021
• In another bay in the Nikopol District, 10 barges and a handful of tugboats lay tilting on their sides in the mud.
  — Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 11 June 2023
• Some rescuers worked from a tent set up on the deck of a tugboat off the ship's stern, while smaller boats and helicopters buzzed around.
  — CBS News, 9 Sep. 2019
• Babb has access to a tugboat, and wonders if the family would like to see where Mitchell first found the bottle.
  — Zulekha Nathoo, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2022
• Pamyua played while the sun set behind Mount Susitna and tugboats passed behind them.
  — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Apr. 2020
• The tugboat is completely overturned, and Spencer and Alexander are no where in sight.
  — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2023
• The Titan, for example, used a tugboat called the Polar Prince.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 19 June 2023
• In 1918, a barge-like vessel broke free from its tugboat and got lodged in the shallow rapids above Niagara Falls.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 6 Nov. 2019
• The United States confirmed a Ukrainian claim to have struck a Russian tugboat.
  — Amy Cheng, Washington Post, 18 June 2022
• The pilot asked by radio for tugboats to help, ordered the Dali’s rudder turned hard and called for its anchor to be dropped.
  — William Wan, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2024
• Three deckhands on a second boat were injured when the tugboat crashed while trying to dock.
  — Laura McKnight, NOLA.com, 8 May 2018
• Booms were set up around the tugboat itself and across the channel area, coming out of the Port of Florence, according to Grabryan.
  — Raja Razek, CNN, 16 July 2023
• Vance was able to escape and appears to have been rescued by passing tugboat.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 12 Mar. 2018
• The pilot was able to free himself from his restraints and was rescued by a nearby tugboat.
  — Fox News, 11 Mar. 2018
• Under floodlights, a tugboat docks and picks up dozens of evacuees from a quiet street near the busy jetty.
  — Larry Madowo, CNN, 1 May 2023
• The tugboat, called the Natalie Jean, has not been recovered.
  — Fox News, 14 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 28 May 2024