How to Use ferryman in a Sentence

ferryman

noun

• The ship docked at the pier and the ferryman lowered the ramp.
  — Yi-Ling Liu, Harper's Magazine, 31 Aug. 2019
• Just pay the ferryman $40 bucks for the ride here and back.
  — John Bordsen, USA TODAY, 12 Oct. 2017
• Politics are tangled up with love and passion in this drama, whose title refers to the Aeneid’s Charon, the ferryman who conveys souls to the land of the dead.
  — Toby Zinman, Philly.com, 6 May 2018
• As the story goes, Streeter was a ferryman on Lake Michigan when a storm beached his craft on an offshore sandbar in July 1886.
  — Dylan Taylor-Lehman, Popular Mechanics, 29 July 2021
• On our glorious boat ride back from the glacier, our ruddy ferryman was beaming.
  — New York Times, 30 Dec. 2017
• Popular lore suggests the dead needed these tokens to pay Charon, the ferryman who transports souls across the River Styx, for safe passage.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 July 2020
• In Italy, there is a word for the manager who is called in when the warning lights are flashing and the fans are in revolt: traghettatore – the ferryman, the person who guides you through choppy waters to the safety of the bank.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2016
• His father, also a ferryman among other things, was James Cook Bourland.
  — Tom Dillard, Arkansas Online, 21 Dec. 2020
• Many cultures in antiquity have buried their dead with coins as a way to pay a mythical ferryman to take their souls into the afterlife.
  — New York Times, 18 May 2018
• The narrator spends much of her time with an old man, a former ferryman who lives on a boat that now registers to them only as an unusable object.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 6 Nov. 2019
• Social media was flooded by images of Paddington Bear as a twee ferryman to Hades, leading the sovereign off the mortal coil.
  — Leila Latif, Chron, 5 Nov. 2022
• Scientists have now confirmed that the creature is a second sighting of the species Bathochordaeus charon, named for the mythical Greek ferryman who was thought to transport souls of the dead across the River Styx.
  — Brian Clark Howard, National Geographic, 6 Dec. 2016
• In another, a Nordic ferryman, restlessly nostalgic for his youth as a sailor, steers his vessel full of commuters toward the open sea.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
• Before the pandemic, visitors from the American side could walk across at low water or hail a Mexican ferryman to row them across in a wooden boat.
  — Joe Yogerst, CNN, 16 June 2021
• The ritzy Van Peteghem clan vacations in their villa overlooking the bay; the Brufort family of mussel-gatherers and ferrymen live on a ramshackle farm in the lowlands.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2017
• The title sees players navigate a spiritual narrative — where a ferryman shepherds souls to the afterlife — using their own blinking eyes.
  — Trilby Beresford, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Apr. 2022
• The beach, a scintillating embodiment of the California Dream just a couple of hours earlier, now looked more like the landing pad for Charon, the mythological ferryman of Hades, with wisps of yellow smoke hovering above leaden waves and pebbles.
  — Anastasia Edel, The New York Review of Books, 17 Sep. 2020
• Director Nicolo Donato’s grandfather was one of the ferrymen.
  — Loren King, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024