How to Use steamboat in a Sentence

steamboat

noun
  • Des Arc was a thriving steamboat stop by the start of the Civil War.
    Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 18 Oct. 2020
  • The ice gorge crushed and sank the Princess, one of the passenger steamboats to Coney Island.
    Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The obelisk at his grave was shipped by steamboat from New Orleans.
    Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 20 Sep. 2020
  • In the 1840s, tourists came to stay at an inn near the spring, bathe in its waters and take steamboat rides on the St. Johns River.
    Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 31 Dec. 2021
  • Minnie Mouse was seen in the film as well, hurrying along to catch the steamboat.
    Tim Darnell, ajc, 15 Nov. 2019
  • First launched in 1815, the paddlewheel steamboat Phoenix was the second of its kind to sail on the body of water.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Sep. 2020
  • The site was a steamboat landing site along the river in the 19th century.
    Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 May 2017
  • 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
  • Some say that as early as 1860, it was used by the steamboat Texarkana, which traveled the Red River.
    Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 8 Aug. 2020
  • The university sold the steamboat in 1967, but kept the calliope.
    Carole Carlson, Post-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2018
  • The first boathouse was built in 1884 to shelter a steamboat for the nearby Soudan Underground Mine.
    Jenna Ross Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
  • The line ran from Providence to the steamboat wharf in Stonington in 1832.
    Peter Marteka, courant.com, 6 July 2018
  • The park grew in popularity and added its steamboat to ferry guests to and from the park.
    Charles Infosino, Cincinnati.com, 12 June 2020
  • The sisters took a steamboat ride from the Seventh Street wharf down the Potomac to the estate, which at that time was run-down and ramshackle.
    Eddie Dean, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • There, a steamboat chugs along beneath a cloudless azure sky.
    Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 30 June 2018
  • The people who caught up with him were patrol of the 16th New York Cavalry that was sent out by a steamboat to catch up Booth.
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
  • 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 second shot is also of the CCC, though from a different angle, with a steamboat in the foreground.
    Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Hafner will build the boat dock along the public landing just east of the steamboat monument.
    Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 16 Dec. 2021
  • The castle was built in the 1850s by the Kennett family, who were involved in lead mining and in the steamboat business.
    Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 5 Feb. 2020
  • 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
  • From outside, through the loosely slapped-together boards of the frame building, came the hoots and howls of steamboat whistles.
    John Dos Passos, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
  • A steamboat whistle attached to the boiler room for morning wake-up call.
    Kristina Goetz, The Courier-Journal, 20 July 2017
  • But by April 25, the weather had turned fine in St. Louis, where the steamboat Omega stood alongside the wharf, its bow pointed upriver.
    William Souder, Smithsonian, 23 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • Chippewa Lake Park opened in 1878 with picnic grounds and a beach, followed soon by the park’s first rollercoaster and a steamboat.
    Mary Jane Brewer, cleveland, 13 Feb. 2021
  • In photos from the event, the newlyweds are shown embracing aboard a steamboat.
    Jen Juneau, PEOPLE.com, 27 Aug. 2017
  • Telling point in all of this: Meaher and the judge were so close that Meaher had named a steamboat after the judge long before the Clotilda voyage.
    al, 27 Jan. 2022

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