ferrying
IPA: fˈɛriɪŋ
noun
- The act by which something is ferried.
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Examples of "ferrying" in Sentences
- They don't really have jobs, though Horse is the one with responsibilities, such as ferrying Steven's farm animals to the local school (in his own car).
- The choppers are used in more than 15 countries for tasks such as ferrying workers to and from offshore oil platforms and transporting government officials.
- The Obama administration is leaning toward outsourcing major components of its space program, such as ferrying cargo and astronauts to the International Space Station.
- This place is now called Velabrum, because during the frequent overflowings of the river, people used there to be ferried over to the market-place; now they call ferrying _velatura_.
- These giant planes might be useful, to some limited extent, in ferrying some logistics, but Israel and its likely area of operations are not so big that they will be all that important.
- The fund is focused on people who worked on the rigs drilling those wells, not people who provided support services, such as ferrying supplies to them, said Mukul Verma, a foundation spokesman.
- The weather that was unsuited, however, for fishing, was very suitable for "ferrying" to the steamer; and when that all-important duty was done, the comparative calm that prevailed was just the thing for the work of the _Sunbeam_.
- Used in more than 15 countries for tasks such as ferrying workers to and from offshore oil platforms and transporting government officials, the helicopters include advanced safety features such as energy-absorbing seats, bird-strike protection systems and anti-icing equipment for rotors.
- A blue-ribbon panel is recommending that NASA shelve its goal of rapidly returning to the moon and instead focus on nurturing a robust commercial space industry that can handle short-term objectives of the nation's space program, such as ferrying cargo and crew to the international space station.
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