How to Use vaporetto in a Sentence

vaporetto

noun

• From the Scuola, take the vaporetto to the Dorsoduro district and tour the church of San Sebastiano.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 8 June 2017
• While in Venice, Bey and Jay lived the glamorous life, snapping photos while riding in a vaporetto boat.
  — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 16 Oct. 2021
• Both are easily reached by waterbus (vaporetto), and good for a stroll and a draught of fresh air, as much for their historic sites and shopping.
  — Patrick Rogers, Town & Country, 12 Mar. 2018
• Most vaporetto lines shut down at night, though the painfully slow-moving N (night) line still operates.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 8 June 2017
• The vaporetto is the public transit system in the city and operates on 20 different lines all through town.
  — Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2021
• And the water taxi—the equivalent of taking a town car to get around—is notably pricier than, say, the public vaporetto (waterbus).
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2020
• Across the world in Venice, simply board a vaporetto, one of the water buses that serve as the main form of public transport, and marvel at gothic palaces that hark back to the city’s 14th- and 15th-century grandeur.
  — Keith Plocek, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2019
• Visitors queue in their hundreds for the vaporetto and onboard the idea of social distancing is laughable.
  — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 31 Aug. 2021
• Trattoria Al Gatto Nero is worth the 40-minute vaporetto ride to Burano.
  — Travel + Leisure, 6 July 2021
• When the crowds get too large in Venice, take the vaporetto to the Lido island and hop on the number 11 ferry, which will cleave through the lagoon, ending at Chioggia -- perched on five islands, at the southern end of the Venetian lagoon.
  — Julia Buckley, CNN, 20 Apr. 2021
• The fair centers on the Giardini, a few vaporetto stops from San Marco, and the Arsenale, a massive former shipworks.
  — Jane Wooldridge, miamiherald, 21 Oct. 2017
• Several tourists boarding the vaporetto bump their suitcases into her and almost knock her into the murky water.
  — Chris Morris, Orange County Register, 3 Mar. 2017
• The vaporetto, provided by the public transport service Actv, was kitted out by the local health service Ulss 3 Serenissima.
  — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• An impromptu transportation strike has shut down the vaporettos, so today the Grand Canal is the province of snappy motorboats and lacquered black gondolas.
  — Jean Bond Rafferty, Town & Country, 17 Dec. 2012
• At least three vaporetti, Venice’s public transportation boats, sank, Italian media reported.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Nov. 2019
• Previously, the vaccination vaporetto had docked at the islands of Pellestrina and Burano.
  — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 7 Apr. 2021
• Another will go on Giudecca island, just off the Palanca vaporetto stop, a residential area increasingly popular with visitors.
  — Julia Buckley, CNN, 17 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024