How to Use ferry in a Sentence

ferry

1 of 2 verb
  • The cars were ferried across the river.
  • They ferry supplies to the island.
  • Need a golf cart to ferry you to the beach?
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Some boats will drop pots for cod or serve as tender boats to ferry fish back to port.
    — Hal Bernton, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Dec. 2022
  • My job was to kind of ferry big boxes of ingots around.
    — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 4 May 2026
  • Now two local teens have gotten the green light to ferry them by golf cart.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2023
  • Rescuers risk their lives to ferry out the few who remain.
    — David E. Sanger Gaëlle Girbes Jason Horowitz Manuel Roig-Franzia, New York Times, 3 June 2026
  • The liquor, like the food and firewood piled in the corner, is ferried in on the back of a haul sled.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The ship will not dock but will remain at anchor, with people ferried off in small boats.
    — Iain Sullivan, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2026
  • When does ferry season end in 2025?
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Four men ferry a white horse across a river on an English summer’s day.
    — Dominic Green, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Bottles of soda were being ferried back and forth and mixed with vodka.
    — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • In the morning, a tourist boat spotted the three survivors and ferried them to a nearby town.
    — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Sep. 2023
  • It gets paired with proteins and hitches a ride on them so it can get ferried throughout your bloodstream.
    — Amy Norton, SELF, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Their big rigs ferry food, fuel and countless other goods around the country.
    — Camila Domonoske, NPR, 24 Nov. 2025
  • These sites can ferry messages between exes who have to, say, co-parent.
    — Reyhan Harmanci, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Three twelve-foot-tall orange excavators took bites out of a mound of snow and ferried it to the hot tub.
    — Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Some kids are ferried by a parent or guardian; Lamia transports herself.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2026
  • When Ukrainian boats tried to ferry help from the right bank to the left, the Russians opened fire.
    — Anna Nemtsova, The Atlantic, 16 June 2023
  • No one was just driving around from open house to open house, and real estate agents weren’t about to ferry mere looky-loos around.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The team allegedly used fake identities to rent a yacht to ferry them and their equipment to the blast site.
    — Joseph Ataman, CNN Money, 15 Nov. 2025
  • When firefighters arrived, the employees used golf carts to ferry them to the crash site.
    — Jonathan Edwards, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
  • These rivers in the sky can stretch for hundreds of miles, ferrying moist air from the tropics northeastward.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2024
  • That didn’t deter some sheepherders who ferried their flocks over to graze several years later.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 July 2023
  • These winds will ferry rounds of heavy rain to most of the city this morning, along with the risk for isolated thunderstorms.
    — Claire Hao, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Three mules ferrying bags of cement clambered past us on their own dirt track that ran shorter and even steeper up to the top.
    — Erin Tan, NBC news, 13 May 2026
  • The rocket is waiting for that perfect moment to fire up its engine and ferry the sat to its correct orbit.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2022
  • They were ferried by a front loader to FedEx trucks adorned with giant-panda decals.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Penguins morphed to Harlequins ferried by the bushel to and from the Strand.
    — Jane Shore, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
  • Casinos have flown him in on a G650 and ferried him around in a Rolls-Royce.
    — Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 2 Apr. 2026

ferry

2 of 2 noun
  • We'll meet you at the ferry.
  • You can get there by ferry.
  • Ferries to both islands depart daily.
  • The ferry did its job just fine.
    — Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Walk the longer route to the ferry dock.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Mar. 2026
  • But the most scenic way to get there is still the ferry.
    — Lindsey Weber, Curbed, 17 June 2026
  • The ferry and bus lines will also be free.
    — CBS News, 29 Dec. 2025
  • The border is rarely more than an hour’s drive or ferry ride away.
    — Jessi Jezewska Stevens, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
  • Find the ferries and schedule links here.
    — Robert Annis, Midwest Living, 7 June 2026
  • The Baltic Sea is a busy place to cruise ferries.
    — David Nikel, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Took the ferry there the next morning and did it in person.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, Cincinnati Enquirer, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The ferry ride across the bay adds to the adventure.
    — Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 30 Mar. 2026
  • By midday, tugboats took the lead to part ice for ferries.
    — Vanessa Murdock, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
  • But the true unlock goes beyond large ferries.
    — Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025
  • On high-water days, tourists board a rowboat ferry for the two-minute trip.
    — Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Visitors take a ferry to reach it.
    — Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The ferry ride across the bay only adds to the adventure.
    — Lauren Schuster, Charlotte Observer, 30 Mar. 2026
  • There are still ferries to be booked and finalized rooming lists to pass along.
    — Alec Lewis, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Besides, missing the ferry might be the best thing that happens all day.
    — Cameron Sperance, Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2026
  • The campsites are nestled in a shady valley about a half-mile walk from the ferry port.
    — Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The campsites are nestled in a shady valley about a half-mile walk from the ferry port.
    — Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Cross the bay by ferry as the infamous prison emerges, perched on its rocky outcrop.
    — Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • The ferry is as long as the Wavertree, twice as high, almost twice as wide.
    — Lincoln Anderson, New York Daily News, 12 June 2026
  • From the ferry dock in Ornes, a winding road leads up the hillside to the church.
    — David Nikel, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
  • No electric ferry has traveled such a distance thus far.
    — Stefan Ionescu february 04, New Atlas, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The ferry operates from morning through evening, all year round.
    — Matt Kirouac, Travel + Leisure, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Hydra, which is about a four-hour ferry ride from Athens, is no stranger to the music scene.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 3 Mar. 2023
  • See all the available ferry terminals and times here.
    — Kathryn Romeyn, Travel + Leisure, 24 Apr. 2026
  • My other favorite scene is on the ferry on the way back with you and Julianne.
    — Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 19 Aug. 2025
  • The ferry and The Ride will be on a weekday schedule.
    — Neal Riley, CBS News, 19 Apr. 2026

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