How to Use steamboat in a Sentence

steamboat

noun
  • Over time, steamboat service shrank back.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 1 Feb. 2026
  • There, a steamboat chugs along beneath a cloudless azure sky.
    — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 30 June 2018
  • The obelisk at his grave was shipped by steamboat from New Orleans.
    — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2020
  • The ore could also be hauled to Batesville for shipment by steamboat.
    — arkansasonline.com, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Every steamboat touching the wharf paid a fee, which paid the wharf master.
    — Martha Zirschky, kansascity.com, 26 May 2017
  • The waterfront was jammed with steamboats awaiting their turn at the wharf.
    — Jeff Suess, Cincinnati.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Minnie Mouse was seen in the film as well, hurrying along to catch the steamboat.
    — Tim Darnell, ajc, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Learn about the floods, the drownings, the steamboats, the ferries and the bridges that make Shakopee the place to live.
    — Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2025
  • He's been a steamboat captain, a sorcerer, a ghost hunter, a band leader, a movie star, and more.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 12 June 2024
  • The park grew in popularity and added its steamboat to ferry guests to and from the park.
    — Charles Infosino, Cincinnati.com, 12 June 2020
  • Hafner will build the boat dock along the public landing just east of the steamboat monument.
    — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 16 Dec. 2021
  • Des Arc was a thriving steamboat stop by the start of the Civil War.
    — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2020
  • Spanish-looking relics like pipes and models of classic cars and steamboats line the window sills.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 10 July 2018
  • In photos from the event, the newlyweds are shown embracing aboard a steamboat.
    — Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, 27 Aug. 2017
  • Before his death, the pandemic cost Hill his job as a porter on a tourist steamboat, his mother said.
    — Ramon Antonio Vargas, NOLA.com, 1 Jan. 2021
  • The site was a steamboat landing site along the river in the 19th century.
    — Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 May 2017
  • In the Children's Garden, kids can scramble through a tree house and board a steamboat.
    — Ashlyn Ware, Midwest Living, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Pretty girls pilot the tramways to the main entrance, where guest then select from a monorail, steamboat or tramway for the trip to the theme park.
    — Roger Simmons, orlandosentinel.com, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The ice gorge crushed and sank the Princess, one of the passenger steamboats to Coney Island.
    — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The program will include rides on the steamboat, talks about the history of steam power and the science behind it.
    — Carole Carlson, chicagotribune.com, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Tom Ryman, a steamboat captain, built it as a place of worship in 1885.
    — Aislyn Greene, AFAR Media, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Then came the Civil War, which sank the steamboat trade and split the Clemens family down the middle.
    — Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
  • The university sold the steamboat in 1967, but kept the calliope.
    — Carole Carlson, Post-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Of all the Belle of Louisville's historic features, one area of the revered steamboat is clearly the most audible.
    — Leo Bertucci, Louisville Courier Journal, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The Belle of Louisville steamboat features a historic calliope played by Martha Gibbs.
    — Leo Bertucci, Louisville Courier Journal, 9 Oct. 2025
  • In 1920, there was a pandemic going on so many port cities would get the plague from infected rats on steamboats.
    — Houston Chronicle, 2 Mar. 2020
  • The explosion of the steamboat Moselle near Cincinnati’s riverfront.
    — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Tall Stacks took Cincinnati back to its flourishing steamboat era of the 1800s.
    — Erin Glynn, The Enquirer, 2 June 2024
  • But the Pearl was not the first nor the last steamboat to explode in Northern California.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Other projects have or would have endangered the bleached sandhill skipper butterfly, the sage-grouse, and steamboat buckwheat.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026

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