Tugboat is an English word with synonyms like tug or towboat. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Tugboat meaning
- A small, powerful boat used to push or pull barges or to help maneuver larger vessels.
- A Social Security Disability Insurance payment; monthly tugboat
Using Tugboat
- The main meaning on this page is: A small, powerful boat used to push or pull barges or to help maneuver larger vessels. | A Social Security Disability Insurance payment; monthly tugboat
- Useful related words include: tug, towboat, tower, boat.
- In the example corpus, tugboat often appears in combinations such as: the tugboat, tugboat and, tugboat sank.
Context around Tugboat
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tugboat
- In this selection, "tugboat" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, horny, offshore, small, operated, captain and operators stand out and add context to how "tugboat" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a local tugboat and a small tugboat to pull. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tugboat" sits close to words such as abdur, abrasion and abscess, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tugboat
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Photo shows the detained tugboat and barge. (7 words)
Updated: Ukraine's military intelligence destroys Russian tugboat in Crimea. (10 words)
Vineyard Haven tugboat Capt. Randy Jardin was ambivalent about the changeover. (11 words)
His cerebral psychiatrist wife, Patricia (), suggests he go for a walk to clear his head — an outing that will upend his life once he meets Katrina (), a blunt, horny tugboat captain. (31 words)
Two sources at the port of Hodeidah told Reuters that an Israeli strike destroyed a tugboat, but the port has several others capable of towing ships to the dock. (29 words)
One of those will be the ship Chipps-Roy and Charles are now set to be deployed on, the K.J. Gardner, a 74-metre-long offshore tugboat. (28 words)
Example sentences (20)
As he tries to radio for help, the tugboat is jolted by the drifting Zebrina that has circled back around to T-bone the tugboat.
According to its statement, a tugboat was en route to the vessel yesterday evening route to assist with the vessel’s re-floating once the weather permits.
A tugboat operated by Marine Transportation Services, left, became grounded in the Mackenzie River near Fort Providence earlier this month.
His cerebral psychiatrist wife, Patricia (), suggests he go for a walk to clear his head — an outing that will upend his life once he meets Katrina (), a blunt, horny tugboat captain.
One of those will be the ship Chipps-Roy and Charles are now set to be deployed on, the K.J. Gardner, a 74-metre-long offshore tugboat.
The method involves the use of a small tugboat to pull the larger ship into the water with the help of gravity.
There are many careers in the maritime industry, such as firefighting, tugboat operators, welding, millwrights, carpenters and professional pile drivers.
Careers in maritime can include cargo shipping, shipbuilding, tugboat towing, ferries, cruise ships and offshore operations.
In Cebu, which is only a few hundred kilometers away, an oil spill of 500 liters occurred off Naga town after a tugboat sank there in September 2023.
In Japan, the NYK Group converted the tugboat Sakigake to run on ammonia rather than liquified natural gas.
So we built it with the harbour at one end of the bridges and a landing craft at the other and even a tugboat alongside.
Two sources at the port of Hodeidah told Reuters that an Israeli strike destroyed a tugboat, but the port has several others capable of towing ships to the dock.
Updated: Ukraine's military intelligence destroys Russian tugboat in Crimea.
Forbes and company were picked up by the Livingstone and its crew radioed for more help, which included the tugboat Iowa.
Photo shows the detained tugboat and barge.
She tweeted at Mayor Don Darling that the city should buy Theodore the Tugboat, which Halifax officials put up for sale this summer.
The barge and the tugboat that was pulling it have now made port.
Tugboat may have been referring to the fact that many democrats want to do away with in-person voting and making it strictly by mail.
Vineyard Haven tugboat Capt. Randy Jardin was ambivalent about the changeover.
After the material is placed in the vessel, it is taken away from the wharf by what appears to be the Western Prince, a local tugboat.
Common combinations with tugboat
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the tugboat 11×
- tugboat and 4×
- tugboat sank 2×
- of tugboat 2×