Sentence examples for pontoon from inspiring English sources

Vehicles are carried separately on a pontoon barge, and may take up to a week longer.

Head to Chauncey Creek (16 Chauncey Creek Road, Kittery Point, 001 207 439 1030, chaunceycreek.com), a simple BYO shack on a pontoon off route 103, for £2 clam chowder, half a dozen cherrystones (large clams) at £4 and, if you're still hungry after that, lobster at market price.

These bags are made in Dhaka, at a cost of $1.80 a bag Tossing sandbags into the river from a pontoon.

A group of hunters on snowmobiles wait as the ship passes, ready with a pontoon bridge to cross the open water that the icebreaker leaves behind.On the trip out, the deck is covered with more than 150 containers carrying mining supplies and food for the people who work there.

The row grew worse this week when the government decided, of all things, to remove a pontoon bridge over a small lake in the capital, Dhaka.

Mr Tose favoured blackjack, similar to pontoon, a children's game.

See also pontoon bridge.

Floating pontoon docks, of which few have been built, rise and fall with the water level.

One epic feat of ancient military engineering was the pontoon bridge built by the engineers of the Persian king Xerxes across the Hellespont (modern Dardanelles), which, according to Herodotus, was accomplished by a mile-long chain of boats, 676 in all, arranged in two parallel rows.

In order to isolate the city, Farnese built fortlets and a pontoon bridge across the lower Scheldt River and succeeded in frustrating all attempts of the beleaguered forces to leave the city.

A concrete cantilever bridge connecting Babelthuap with Koror at the time of its construction (1977) the longest such span in the world collapsed suddenly in 1996, crippling the country's transportation, communication, and water networks; in its place a pontoon bridge was constructed as a stopgap measure.