How To Use Pontoon In A Sentence

The creak of the wooden pontoon was such a sad, lonely sound.
But here we are, close to the ditch, and I do not see my friend the pontooner. The Country Doctor
While waiting for help to arrive, the crew haggled with missionary priests for wine, rice and yams, and struggled to keep curious natives off the pontoons used for water landings.
It is a great sight, with ant-like streams pouring across long pontoons over the river's shallow sandy banks to innumerable craft moored midstream.
There was a motor cruiser moored at the end of the pontoon, dazzlingly white with a blue band above the watermark. CONFESSIONAL

We went up to the landing and there passing down by the end of the garden was a party of about 10 men in civvies, carrying rifles heading for the Pontoon Road.
The commandant tapped his heart, looked once more at the old pontooner, mounted his horse again, and went his way side by side with Benassis. The Country Doctor
He claimed later to have invented a method of transporting armed men across rivers using pontoons for shoes.
Other concepts include wind and submarine cars with the latter docking onto floating pontoons.
And then I saw it -- the high, white bow of that fishing cruiser gliding in towards the end of the pontoon. HIGH STAND
The harbour is a lighterage port where ships are worked in stream buoys by means of lighters and pontoons for loading and offloading cargo.
During a 30-hour river closure, winch wires were being secured to both banks of the river and used to tow the floating pontoon on which the bridge rested.
It is a great sight, with ant-like streams pouring across long pontoons over the river's shallow sandy banks to innumerable craft moored midstream.
The old pontooner raised his head at this, recognized the mayor, and came towards them down a little pathway. The Country Doctor
It was something that would not have been attempted prior to the drainage project when the waters of the lake lapped the roadside at Pontoon.
As it was easy to spot, photogenic and reassuring, I enjoyed ending my dives by gently surfacing between the bodacious pontoons.
The old pontooner drew himself up at the words, he knocked the ashes from his pipe, and put it in his pocket. The Country Doctor
Before Mrs Bs arrived, I was playing pontoon with Kerstie.
Huge industrial cranes lifted the 120-year-old vessel from the slipway on Lowestoft's north quay on to the 50m long pontoon which is going to support the ship for years to come. EDP24 News
Needless to say, these measures were generally foiled by the watchfulness of the soldiery; so poker, pontoon, crown-and - anchor and the like continued to flourish, along with housie-housie.
Though the rise of the Brisbane river had been predicted for many days, owners left their boats on the river, some of them moored to pontoons, which were themselves ripped from their moorings. Australian floods: Why were we so surprised?
If true, this could persuade the EU to pay for a Hungarian operation to lift the wreckage - and possibly for a high-level bridge to replace the Novi Sad pontoon.
Diesel is available on the pontoons from a long pipe which extends down from a makeshift pump at the pontoon head.
Some US forces were north of the Euphrates River, but most were stuck south of the waterway as engineers tried to build a pontoon bridge there.
Lastly to make the picture more realistic, some crew are placed on board, and on the floating pontoons.
Military engineers would choose the site, but specialists known in the British army as ‘tin boatmen’ because of the metal sheathing of the pontoons would construct it.
There is a safety issue with pontoons - the height of the freeboard can be too high for people in the water to reach up to.
-- Hydro means water, hence the term hydroplane has been given to machines which have suitable pontoons or boats, so they may alight or initiate flight from water. Aeroplanes
We trundled off, hiked up a steep incline of jagged coral, past poisonous trees and cat-sized frogs, and ended up at an unprepossessing wooden pontoon at the edge of a vast lake.
Although several yachts have berthed next to the new breakwater wall, the catamaran was the first to use the pontoons, which have been moved during the past two weeks.
Now and then, volleys of musketry, or a repulse from the Southern batteries on the heights, filled the blue morning sky with belching scarlet flame and smoke: through all, however, the long train of army-wagons passed over the pontoon-bridge, bearing the wounded. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
There was a motor cruiser moored at the end of the pontoon, dazzlingly white with a blue band above the watermark. CONFESSIONAL
The pontooner was deaf, and his health was shattered; and as he could neither read nor write, he found no one left to help him or to plead his cause. The Country Doctor
Optional inflatable pontoons can be fitted for emergency deployment on water.
Perhaps one of these rubber pontoon outboards would be better.
The launch reached the shore and tied up to a floating pontoon connected by a gangway to the dock.
Scope: Pontoon road maintenance services road maintenance services.
A power-driven pontoon will carry visitors and their vehicles across the Orange River near the park's western extremity.
They built barrel bridges, roads, tramways, light railways, trenches, bunkers, pontoon bridges, trestle bridges and the Inglis Bridge.
As a result of this he sent for six 24 pounders, two 18 pounders, five mortars, 153 wagons of ammunition for the artillery, boats, pontoons, and 400 draught horses to come to the city under the command of a Captain Pulteney.
Eventually the plane came back to life and he and his co-pilot were able to land it on pontoons, but then they had to wait a month on the rapidly deteriorating summer ice for a new crankshaft. Steven Crandell: "We're Destroying the Most Amazing Thing in Our Lives" -- Interview With Polar Photographer Paul Nicklen
In blackjack, or pontoon as it is known in Britain, the aim is to get a hand that totals 21, or as near 21 as possible without going over.
The pontoons were stored at Berlin, Magdeburg and Neisse and were very light weight, being made of thin sheet copper, according to Christopher Duffy. Archive 2007-08-01
Other games are "crown and anchor", which is a dice game, and "pontoon", which is a card game similar to "twenty-one" or "seven and a half. A Yankee in the Trenches
To that end, it wears husky, squared-off sheet metal, an upright roof, and creased "pontoon" fenders similar to those on the new GLK crossover ( "a new Mercedes schtick," offers design editor Robert Cumberford). Undefined
In just over an hour, however, they succeeded in getting the pontoons into place and began the inflation process.
While there is no waiting list for berths on the marina, the pontoons that have been installed further upstream have already attracted enquiries from boat owners.
I got my equipment together, and an hour later was climbing into my drysuit on the large pontoon near the submarine mooring.
They built barrel bridges, roads, tramways, light railways, trenches, bunkers, pontoon bridges, trestle bridges and the Inglis Bridge.
The Port Service's crane toppled as the Able Seaman was lifting a steel workbench from the tray of a semi-trailer on to a pontoon being used for maintenance work on the sail training ship Young Endeavour.
He didn't hear Oliver, there was too much noise on the pontoon from the engine and the pump.
The marina development will consist of the construction of two breakwaters, fifty-three floating pontoon berths and hardstanding, together with a slipway adjoining the existing pier.
Floating pontoons, with their massing and design, ‘cannot contribute in the same way and constitute an intrusive feature in such a sensitive location’.
The other players' cards will not be visible at this point, except where they have split, twisted, declared pontoons or gone bust.
Pontoons would be opened to the extent that it was necessary to access containers below deck.
On examination of the piers of the bridge, it was found that they had admirably resisted the tremendous pressure; and though the timber “cribwork” erected to facilitate the placing of floating pontoons to form the dams, was found considerably disturbed and in some places seriously damaged, the piers, with the exception of one or two heavy stone blocks, which were still unfinished, escaped uninjured. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson
The harbour is to be dredged, and a pontoon will be built across the middle, the better to accommodate sailing cruisers.
We are saving it from this rather watery grave and lifting it bodily, flying it down river on a floating crane, and putting it on to a pontoon, which will become a restoration platform.
The Swiss guard at the Vatican today display the halberd, which is sort of a spontoon to which is affixed a cutting edge back of a point, though they do not cut anybody with it anymore, as far as I can tell. Undefined
With drag from pontoons and floats removed, the OS2Us had greater speed and could carry heavier loads of bombs.
Those of us who cross the Hood Canal Bridge daily are still gritting our teeth on the graving dock fiasco in Port Angeles, where workers unearthed a few bones in the tidelands during preparation for pontoon construction. Sound Politics: Balterdash
The Marines began laying their own pontoon bridge to carry over their heaviest trucks.
The floating pontoon - connecting the linkspan bridges to the ferry itself - has been put together in Poland.
There was a motor cruiser moored at the end of the pontoon, dazzlingly white with a blue band above the watermark. CONFESSIONAL
Up to that point, the aircraft flew with pontoons for water landings, but those were replaced by wheels for the flight across the Asian subcontinent and thence to France and the United Kingdom.
The term caisson is sometimes applied to flat air-tight constructions used for raising vessels out of water for cleaning or repairs, by being sunk under them and then floated; but these floating caissons are more commonly known as pontoons, or, when air-chambers are added at the sides, as floating dry-docks. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
The crane jib came to rest on the pontoon narrowly missing a civilian shipwright working beside Young Endeavour.
Lifting cables, each capable of carrying 900 tonnes, will subsequently be lowered from the pontoon and secured in the holes with steel plugs.
We struggled through long lines of heavy-laden country carts, and swarms of clattering _droskies_, all striving to force their way along with that hurry-skurry that adds to confusion and lessens speed; and we came at last to a long pontoon bridge, over which we crossed the Oka, and beyond which rises the hill-range or ravine, on the top and at the foot of which is built the straggling town of Nijni-Novgorod. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers
It consisted of stretching a cable across the obstacle and attaching flat bottomed boat-like pontoons to it one after another and poling them across, then laying a roadway across them with timber beams.
So I turn to the "pontoon," a composite dish containing everything in the world which is edible and savoury, and I ask the Cook-Sergeant why we cannot get that sort of thing in peace time, pay what we will. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 23, 1914
It submitted an application in September to build a floating pontoon, which would allow it to moor boats.
Get engineers to build Pontoon bridges and abatis, and use sharpshooters to snipe at the enemy from a safe distance. Back To Gettysburg
The party boat is what we called the pontoon boat. Undefined
They had some feather - brained scheme to float a pontoon bridge across the Channel.
It has a wide range of marine plant available for hire and sale which includes tugs, pontoons, workboats, anchors, chain etc.
In the early morning of 11 December, Burnside's engineers began laying pontoon bridges.
Again, there is this poor pontooner of ours, who saved the whole French army, and who was never able to tell his tale to any purpose; suppose that he had lost the use of his limbs, would the consciousness of what he had done have found him in bread? The Country Doctor
`Wait till we raft some Panzers over, wait till we get a pontoon bridge! IN LOVE AND WAR
It was 525 metres long and was supported by 32 pontoons including stone skewbacks on both banks.
According to the salvage plan, Kursk will be secured beneath a number of specially designed pontoons to be ferried to a dry dock in Murmansk, the base of Russia's Northern Fleet, for examination.
Aqis spokeswoman Jen O'Reilly said the consignment also included a tug, pontoons, cranes, forklift and anchor.
He figured out that he could use the machinery that made fiberglass soundproofing diffusers to make the pontoons, too.
The yellow pontoons are put under the whales when they beach and used to refloat them. Times, Sunday Times
The chairman pointed out that a pontoon had been constructed on the west side of the harbour beside the Marina House to facilitate angling boats, pleasure crafts and the diving centre.
The 25-m - long x 10-m-wide caissons travelled on pontoons before being sunk into place.
At one-fifteen the float plane splashed down, settled on to its pontoons, and turned in toward the docks.
As this edition of Navy News was going to press a number of pontoons and moorings were being secured to the seabed around the warship.
The pontoon's superstructure is divided by two longitudinal bulkheads into three functional sections.
The yellow pontoons are put under the whales when they beach and used to refloat them. Times, Sunday Times
Alexander Graham Bell, inventor and aviation pioneer, helps a boy balance on the pontoon of a Sikorsky S-38 amphibious aircraft in the 1930s.
It could very well have been "pontoon" on a different day. Archive 2008-12-01
Only some sailors in blue jerseys who appeared as the Shirley chugged alongside the boarding pontoon.
The port consisted of a series of caissons forming the outside wall, with various pontoons and jetties inside, mainly following the design of a bailey bridge (big meccano).
Military engineers hurriedly constructed a pontoon bridge across the river.
Our first evening was spent drinking sundowners, drifting down the Zambezi on a pontoon absorbing the sunset and watching large herds of elephants swimming across the river supporting their calves in the deep water.
Thus Mr. Fiennes grew up in rarefied circumstances, surrounded by the artifacts (and vocabulary) of a vanished world: halberds and stanchions, vaults and corbels, groined passages, burgonets, rapiers and spontoons. Within The Castle Walls
The ‘sleigh ride’ my friend and I took yesterday evening in a pontoon boat on Lake Merritt was pleasantly addlebrained.
Yes | No | Report from countitandone wrote 25 weeks 4 days ago oh yeah ~ wearing my beige crocs while on the water (pontoon) has made an uncomfortable task (water skeeter fins) comfortable. A Big Croc of...
The pontooner wiped his hand and took that of Genestas, which he grasped warmly and said: The Country Doctor
This is a crane that's been designed by Chris Mitchell, what he calls an access dinghy system, and this is the crane that he uses off the pontoons, yes.
Thanks to Jim, we traveled via streams, dirt paths, and at one point, a river that could be forded only by hiring a pontoon boat for our bikes. Off the Beaten Track
A floating pontoon bridge links each side of the city but this has been relegated to pedestrian traffic since they built a spectacular motorway road bridge, which now dominates the skyline.
The operation involves removing the pontoon by crane, dragging the silt along it's length into the channel where the dredger will suck it up and deposit it in the licensed sites out at sea.
With the first new post-war cars, the 1947 Studebaker shows trends that would shape the era: the "pontoon" all-enveloping body restrained by functionally unnecessary vestigial rear "fenders" and a bright accent line where the running board used to be. The Truth About Cars
Iker and Broker edged through the open hatch and balanced on the pontoon as the plane maneuvered toward shore. ABSOLUTE ZERO
The "Futenma Replacement Facility," as by now it was known, had grown from a modest "helipad," as it was referred to in 1996, to a removable, offshore pontoon with a runway, initially 1,500 meters but gradually stretching to Independent Media Center: Japan
These are useful in many ways, not least as a betting tokens for playing pontoon, we've found!
Constructed of various concrete caissons and pontoons, the Mulberrys were the innovation that made the Normandy campaign following the D-Day landings possible.
The main living spaces join the home's pontoon to float over the lake.
He sets up a typewriter on a rickety wooden pontoon and moodily bashes away, staring out over the lake.
There may be any number of slips so arranged, and one pontoon may be made available for several cylinders at the deep water parts of neighboring repairing or building yards, in which case the recessed portion of the pontoon, when arranged around the cylinder, has stays or retaining bars fitted to prevent it leaving the cylinder when the swinging is taking place, such as might happen in a tideway. Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881
The Kingfisher landed safely in the rough water and taxied over to Kanze, who reached up to grasp a wing pontoon.

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