How to Use riverboat in a Sentence

riverboat

noun
  • Here are five of the best riverboat (and lake and ocean) cruises in the state.
    — Avery Newmark, AccessAtlanta, 17 June 2022
  • Now, don’t be distracted by the white suit and the cigar and the riverboat.
    — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Belmond’s fleet of small, tony riverboats is about to gain a new member.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Musk is a riverboat pilot in his own right, like Twain before him.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 16 Oct. 2018
  • In the meantime, the riverboats are dry-docked at an area recycling yard.
    — Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 16 May 2025
  • Or maybe a riverboat structure festooned with flying pigs.
    — Patricia Gallagher Newberry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Dec. 2025
  • Much is at stake for Penn, which has owned the sister riverboat casinos for more than two decades.
    — Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
  • It was also meant to include a riverboat ride straight under the casino.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 30 July 2021
  • The state wagering tax was based on two licenses for the city’s two riverboats.
    — Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Also in the video, someone appears to jump off the riverboat and swim to the dock to help the co-captain.
    — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
  • There’s also a touch-and-go bush pilot demonstration where the plane lands right next to the riverboat.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Apr. 2022
  • The tour, which takes six and a half hours, starts with a 35-minute train ride, followed by a two-hour riverboat cruise.
    — Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Your first trip to the Amazon was on a riverboat with a group of traveling players.
    — National Geographic, 9 Oct. 2016
  • Pickett noted the riverboat would not have been able to dock without hitting the smaller boat.
    — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Pence had worked for the Tennessee State Fair and on a riverboat.
    — Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 30 Dec. 2020
  • Reports at the time said the riverboat could hold up to 400 passengers.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The pontoon boat had blocked the riverboat for nearly an hour, according to police.
    — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2023
  • More news to know now One more person has been charged in the Alabama riverboat brawl.
    — USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The boat's co-captain said he was attacked after moving the pontoon boat a few feet to make way for the riverboat.
    — CBS News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Policemen in riverboats patrolled the Nile in front of the embassy.
    — Bloomberg.com, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Pure Amazon is the Amazon’s newest—and most stylish—riverboat.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Dan Campbell — one of the biggest riverboat gamblers the league has ever seen — opted to go for it.
    — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Video footage shows Pickett in a verbal exchange with boaters after asking them to make way for the riverboat.
    — Melissa Noel, Essence, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Huck working on a riverboat and Tom Sawyer settling Kansas made sense to me.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Several Black bystanders rushed in to help, including one who jumped off the riverboat and swam to shore.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Much of the online commentary has been around the fact that many Black bystanders rushed in to defend the riverboat crew.
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The victims in the case are riverboat Pickett and a 16-year-old deckhand-in-training.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Goodbye moose flies, dunks in clear rivers, hot nights in the tent and tanned kids and their parents arriving by riverboat from fish camps on the Yukon.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 29 July 2017
  • This part of the Bourbon Trail has unique ways to see the area, including by bicycle or by riverboat.
    — Caroline Eubanks, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 June 2024
  • However, a wake from a passing riverboat pulled him under and authorities found his body six days later.
    — Jordana Comiter, PEOPLE, 4 Dec. 2025

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