gondola

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Recent Examples of gondola Take a gondola or chairlift ride to see sweeping panoramas of the picturesque peaks. AFAR Media, 4 July 2025 And Frank wants to build an air gondola from Mount Adams to the Hard Rock Casino. Sharon Coolidge, The Enquirer, 3 July 2025 When The Post reached out to the city about this, the Community Planning and Development department responded that they are not involved in or aware of any plans for a gondola in the downtown area. Jessica Alvarado Gamez, Denver Post, 2 July 2025 The figure floated in the canal past gondolas and groups of tourists. Rachel McRady, People.com, 26 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for gondola
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gondola
Noun
  • Classic ferry ticket, $22.95 for an adult round-trip ticket and $17.95 for children.
    Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 30 July 2025
  • From the ferry landing, hike the Cape Moreton Track to the historic Cape Moreton Lighthouse (the only stone lighthouse in Queensland) and take in sweeping views of the Pacific.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2025
Noun
  • Over the next five years, taxi customers plummeted by 90 percent.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 29 July 2025
  • The pay-offs for the England parents who doubled as their daughters’ taxi drivers, chefs, psychologists, nutritionists, coaches and kit launderers defy comprehension.
    Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 26 July 2025
Noun
  • The alternative would have been a full scrapping, which is what befell another Staten Island ferryboat, the Andrew J. Barberi.
    E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 10 May 2025
  • As a teenager, Ellen Dare Burling had an unusual summer job: Jumping off a moving ferryboat onto wooden piers, her arms filled with letters and packages destined for summer residents in their southern Wisconsin lake houses.
    Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The Wake Pro 230 was designed around being a towboat, for water-skiing, wakeboarding, or wake-surfing.
    Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 11 July 2025
  • Additional charges are expected in connection with the theft of the towboat theft in Jupiter, officials say.
    Mark Price, Miami Herald, 7 May 2025
Noun
  • In time, the regulatory authority extended to the railroads’ competitors—barges and trucking, for example—giving them, too, the benefits of federal regulation.
    John C. Goodman, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
  • The barge was being pushed from behind by a tugboat.
    Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 29 July 2025
Noun
  • The situation was on the minds of many who cheered when the Ford steamed from its pier in Norfolk, with tugboats hugging the carrier's hull and sailors lining the sprawling deck in their dress-white uniforms.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 25 June 2025
  • But things got immeasurably worse once tugboats began towing them to a port in Mobile, Ala.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • Once their tickets are secured, travelers can find the secret garden by taking a water taxi to the Redentore stop.
    Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 31 July 2025
  • On Thursday, celebrities such as Orlando Bloom, Tom Brady, Kim Kardashian, DiCaprio, Kylie Jenner and others boarded water taxis at various luxurious hotels in Venice, Italy, ahead of the couple's extravagant wedding celebrations.
    Stephanie Giang-Paunon , Emily Trainham , Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • The photographs show a tug pushing a large barge with a crane mounted on top of it.
    Carl David Goette-Luciak, Miami Herald, 29 July 2025
  • It was given a tug from a golf cart and pulled in neutral to a grassy lot where potential buyers could place a higher bid.
    Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 July 2025

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“Gondola.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gondola. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.

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