How to Use gangplank in a Sentence

gangplank

noun

• The plane stopped, and the gangplank-like stairs plopped down.
  — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2021
• The migrants then walked one- by-one down a gangplank to land.
  — Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2019
• Then things went awry: The female and the cygnet ducked under a gangplank and escaped downstream.
  — Helen MacDonald, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2017
• In the best of circumstances, a pregnancy was a walk down a gangplank.
  — Karen Russell, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
• As the gangplank lowers, the crowd forms a haphazard line and marches down the dock and onboard.
  — Megan Bush Moody, Alaska Dispatch News, 25 June 2017
• On the gangplank, locals line up, waiting — some on four-wheelers, some with dogs, some with carts.
  — Megan Bush Moody, Alaska Dispatch News, 25 June 2017
• The couple held a pose at the ship's railing for the press boys crowding the gangplank with their notebooks and Speed Graphic cameras.
  — Paul Hendrickson, Town & Country, 19 Dec. 2012
• Sailors with sidearms stood watch by the gangplank, seemingly oblivious to the cold rain lashing their faces.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2021
• Sailors with side arms stood watch by the gangplank, seemingly oblivious to the cold rain lashing their faces.
  — New York Times, 22 May 2021
• Since the pandemic began, the crowds that Mr. Ng once jostled to squeeze onto the ferry gangplank are gone.
  — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
• Miners came down the gangplanks hefting three tons of gold from far northwest Canada.
  — Smithsonian, 24 Oct. 2019
• Maybe this is the summer to extend that vision past the gangplank, and into the state’s interior.
  — Susan Glaser, cleveland, 8 Apr. 2021
• That lad with the strange accent descending the gangplank in New York just might be the one who discovers our next Northwest Passage.
  — Rinker Buck, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
• Using the back of a pickup truck as a gangplank, Mr. Ellis helped his mother into the boat, her belongings trussed up in garbage bags.
  — Shaila Dewan, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2017
• On the day of our departure, two male crew members dressed in short red jumpsuits greeted passengers on the gangplank.
  — Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2021
• From the gangplank of the Slave I, ascending into the skies, Mayfield aims a cycler rifle at a cache of rhydonium and blows the whole refinery sky high.
  — Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2020
• Sailors, many of them already desperately ill, stumbled down the gangplank and into the dockyards of Messina.
  — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 3 July 2018
• After shuffling down the gangplank, officials took their temperatures in tents draped with the country’s flag.
  — Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2021
• In soundless footage, military officers watched Chagossians descend a gangplank—the fading record of a heritage visit.
  — Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
• This large wooden ship has lidded storage, a retractable gangplank, cloth sails, four molded pirates (including a captain with a hook), two cannons, two sharks, a gunpowder keg, and more!
  — Jenny Williams, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2011
• Beyond a polite greeting, I was basically ignored, even by the ginger-haired character in the red swing dress and topknot (Pippi Longstocking with looser locks?) idling by the gangplank.
  — Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2019
• In New York City, Prabhupada descended the gangplank carrying a small suitcase, an umbrella, and a rumpled bag of cereal.
  — Ashley Stimpson, Longreads, 19 Feb. 2022
• But the location proved too windy (and perhaps elevated) for unloading human passengers who were to walk across a gangplank, even if the midtown location was more convenient than the airship landing field in Lakehurst.
  — Starre Vartan, Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2020
• The brand casually staged a spaceship landing in the museum’s historic courtyard, with the runway resembling a futuristic gangplank.
  — Emilia Petrarca, The Cut, 8 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024