Sentence examples for aboard a float from inspiring English sources

B1 Carnival Ends With Violence The fatal shooting of a man trying to climb aboard a float at the West Indian American Day and Parade in Brooklyn marred what was otherwise a celebratory event, police said.

Before a crowd of some 20,000, the International Indian Film Academy awards started with the entrance of actors aboard a float built like a pirate ship a nod to Tampa's love of pirate-themed parties.

A man was fatally shot while trying to climb aboard a float yesterday at the West Indian American Day Carnival Parade in Brooklyn, while a second person was stabbed just over an hour later on the same block, the police said.

Leclair and Loots plan to make it official aboard a float shaped like a wedding cake coated in white coconut chips, accented with red kidney beans and festooned with 12,000 roses and other floral decorations, said Ged Kenslea, a spokesman for the AIDS Healthcare Foundation.

With nearly two dozen hostages aboard a floating ammunition depot, things could get complicated.

Even before Concordia, some of us might have been tempted to dismiss a cruise as voluntary incarceration aboard a floating skyscraper with only honeymooners and retirees for company.

More than two weeks after suicide bombers tore a hole in its hull while it lay in the port of Aden, the maimed American destroyer Cole limped out to sea, where it was taken aboard a floating drydock for shipment back to the United States for repairs.

Richard Powell takes a trip around Croatia's Kvarner Gulf archipelago, on a cycling holiday with a twist aboard a floating hotel..

A conservative activist known for making undercover videos plotted to embarrass a CNN correspondent by recording a meeting on hidden cameras aboard a floating "palace of pleasure" and making sexually suggestive comments, e-mails and a planning document show.

What is amazing about living aboard a floating luxury riverboat is that it gives you the opportunity to see the eco-systems of the rainforest up close, but also enjoy many five-star amenities such as fine dining prepared by some of the top Peruvian chefs, massages, private rooms and bathrooms, and hot showers and air conditioning (something you don't realize is a luxury until you're down there).

The National Security Agency was intercepting all of his incoming and outgoing transmissions via equipment aboard the, a floating listening post that continuously cruised the Indian Ocean off Dar es Salaam for that purpose.