tugboat

How To Use tugboat In A Sentence

• Here, the wreck of a tugboat rests in its sandy Caribbean grave.
• From the tender age of twelve, my mother had been unable to start her day without the aid of at least two cups of immoderately strong, tar-black, unsweetened coffee, a taste for which she had picked up from the tugboat captains and zooty bachelors who filled the boardinghouse where she had grown up. Middlesex
• My canal-side atelier is filled with the sights and sounds of tall-masted old sailboats and put-putting tugboats outside and that ochreous Dutch sunlight pouring in during the afternoon. Susan Fogwell: An American Sculptor in Holland
• Like a mad tugboat, my friend Michael nonetheless seemed eager to drag me to the event.
• Engine room artificers, boatswains, tugboat crews and quartermasters in the harbour master section (navigation branch) of the Sri Lanka Port Authority began an overtime boycott on November 12.
• A preliminary federal report says an idled tour boat and nearby vessels repeatedly called the tugboat guiding the barge that hit and sank the craft, killing two Hungarian students. CourierPostOnline.com - News
• Smaller boats, including tugboats can also be seen moving about on the river.
• Workmen at the docks were unloading the crates from the tugboats and cruises.
• More than 400,000 gallons of thick industrial fuel oil spilled just upriver from the Crescent City Connection in the collision early Wednesday morning between a tanker and a barge being pulled by a tugboat. Oil Spill on the Mississippi « Skid Roche
• ‘The nearest boat to the tugboat was 40 nautical miles away and we managed to be there in about two hours,’ he said.