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How to use gangway in a sentence

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A woman conductor does have limitations when having to move through the gangway of a crowded bus during peak hours.
They didn't take any of the available seats downstairs, yet they didn't obstruct the gangway by huddling in the aisle.
On 2 July 1994 a 6-year-old boy fell off a gangway leading to a viewing platform on a New Zealand Rail train.
Senator Kendrix Vincent walked up the gangway into the hold of her ship, the Blue Delphinus.
The connecting bus took us up into Terminal One and within 10 minutes I was on the gangway of the Heathrow Express.
As the ship's company, in their summer whites, descended the gangway in single file, a roar of jubilation filled the air.
They both stood at the rail as the gangway was eventually raised and the ship was nudged out of its berth.
He and the delegates went up the gangway of 19 ships in the ports of Cairns and Townsville to check pay and conditions.
The trireme had 3 banks of oars, and a full spar deck instead of the centre-line gangway of the early bireme.
Dozens of people were on the gangway to board the ship when the passageway collapsed, according to the rescue workers.
Wearing embroidered palikari vest, puffy-sleeved poukamiso, and pleated foustanella shirt, my grandfather bestrides the gangway.
Were you able to find out whether any companion ladder or gangway was lowered from the ship to the water?
He attempted to board the vessel by jumping from the quayside as a gangway was not rigged, but fell into the water.
Shaped like the letter Y, the main bridge is curved, with a secondary gangway linked to the quayside a short distance away.
A section of the starboard bulwarks was removed to create a gangway, or opening.
If possible a pilot ladder and gangway net should be placed over the lee side with manropes.
In all, 176 passengers were escorted off the Mississippi Belle II without incident over a gangway rigged up from the shore, officials said.
The ocean swell separates gangway from platform at times by several meters and we must jump when ordered.
On a customary tropical Hawaiian day, personnel mustered on the gangway and were whisked away to the Arizona Memorial.
However, the metal gangway which joined ship to shore was badly damaged and cadets have been busy repairing it.
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Meanwhile the commander of the Chanzy's gig lay to at the gangway of the Caledonia.
The Turks directed a perfect tornado of rifle, Maxim, and pompom fire on 200 men who made a dash down the gangway.
They made their way to the jetty off which the Topeka lay, with a gangway connecting.
Rainey led him down the gangway to the deck of the sealer, still cluttered a bit with unstowed gear.
The door at the end of the gangway opened, and the big jutlander came out with a tiny coffin under his arm.
On the larboard side of the ship was placed the accommodation ladder, leading from the gangway to the water.
And on that he turned, and stalked away down the gangway to the vessel's waist.
He found St. Clair standing by the gangway, and called him by name.
And it brought off a man that soared up the gangway three jumps at a time he was that eager to get aboard.
The berthing made to fit into a vessel's gangway on either side.
I lay down in the gangway of the yacht whilst campion steered.
A man now made his appearance from over the gunnel, at the gangway.
A MULTI-MILLION pound telescopic gangway has been delivered by two North East firms working in partnership.
It was about two o'clock when my brother, having paid their fares at the gangway, found himself safely aboard the steamboat with his charges.
Up the gangway were trooping the customs officers, the surveyor, the agent's clerk, and the stevedores.
Two Scottish policemen were stationed at the bottom of the gangway.
On toward the forecastle, where sat the woman alone by the gangway.
They shook hands, and then the old man went down the gangway.
They were standing in the gangway, waiting to be shewn their seats.
Under their feet they felt the gangway vibrate and withdraw from the land.
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