How to Use tugboat in a Sentence

tugboat

noun

• She was placed on a barge and pulled to sea by tugboat.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2022
• Then the team had a tugboat tow it out to an offshore site.
  — John Fialka, Scientific American, 28 Oct. 2020
• The Dali backed away from the site and was escorted in by tugboats.
  — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 20 May 2024
• Covert is retired from the Navy, sailing the world on a tugboat.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2022
• The bridge stands about 25 feet above the water, which is why even the tugboats couldn’t fit beneath it.
  — Paul Berger, WSJ, 2 June 2018
• The crew detached the tugboat from the barge to break ice and forge a path back toward the Kuskokwim River.
  — Greg Kim, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Nov. 2021
• It had been brought down the river from a quarry by one of three METS tugboats.
  — Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• This improves safety on board both the vessel and the tugboat.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Feb. 2020
• They in turn will be led by tugboats, which can better steer at low speed.
  — Steve Mollman, Quartz, 8 June 2019
• One of the tugboats, the Eric McAllister, turned around and raced back toward the ship.
  — Mike Baker, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
• Around that time, the ship’s pilots called for tugboats to come help guide the wayward vessel.
  — Lea Skene, Fortune, 15 May 2024
• The ship was last seen near the pier, flanked by the two tugboats that helped it return from the site of the collision off the eastern coast of Japan.
  — Bloomberg.com, 17 June 2017
• There was a tugboat shooting water with a fire hose and the Twin Towers in the background.
  — Jessica Matlin, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Sep. 2021
• So, yes, while the 1 weighs like a tugboat, much of that mass is slung deep and square in the midst of four insanely grippy tires.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2020
• In 2012, Kuznetsov broke down off the coast of France and had to be taken under tow by a Russian navy tugboat.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 June 2022
• After striking the buoy, the boat hit a tugboat, took on water and capsized, Cross said.
  — Jean Marbella, baltimoresun.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• But the neighborhood changed, and in 1964 the members put the clubhouse on a barge, crewed up a tugboat and floated the club to China Basin.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 9 Nov. 2019
• Currence’s first kitchen job was cooking for a crew on a tugboat in the Gulf of Mexico.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 21 Jan. 2021
• Parish blew the tugboat’s horn, to the delight of waving passengers.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 20 June 2024
• In another bay in the Nikopol District, 10 barges and a handful of tugboats lay tilting on their sides in the mud.
  — Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 11 June 2023
• It was refloated and moved to the Port of Baltimore by five tugboats last month.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 27 June 2024
• The tugboat in Texas was pushing bunker barges, which are fuel barges for ships, Flores said.
  — Juan Lozano, Fortune, 16 May 2024
• Ed Whitmore, the owner of the tugboat pushing the barge, went to consult the captain, then returned.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
• Some rescuers worked from a tent set up on the deck of a tugboat off the ship's stern, while smaller boats and helicopters buzzed around.
  — CBS News, 9 Sep. 2019
• The USS Dewey, another destroyer, and two naval tugboats were at the scene.
  — Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 16 June 2017
• Babb has access to a tugboat, and wonders if the family would like to see where Mitchell first found the bottle.
  — Zulekha Nathoo, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2022
• Pamyua played while the sun set behind Mount Susitna and tugboats passed behind them.
  — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Apr. 2020
• The tugboat is completely overturned, and Spencer and Alexander are no where in sight.
  — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2023
• As the wooden steam tugboat’s crew tried to grab a line from the I.W. Stephenson, the smaller vessel sailed in front of the bigger one—and the two ships collided.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Sep. 2024
• The state could require tugboats to assist large ships under the Bay Bridge, but that’s logistically challenging and expensive.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024