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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of debark.

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Examples

  • Word is Mayor Robinson-Briggs and entourage debarked from a HELICOPTER at Hub-Stine Field late yesterday afternoon, returning from a trip to Trenton.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Dan 2007

  • Word is Mayor Robinson-Briggs and entourage debarked from a HELICOPTER at Hub-Stine Field late yesterday afternoon, returning from a trip to Trenton.

    Helicopter Mayor's new thing? Dan 2007

  • In 1888 a young artist with delicate features and intense eyes debarked from a Volga ferry in Plyos, a tiny hamlet about sixty miles east of Yaroslavl.

    Escape to Old Russia 2006

  • In 1888 a young artist with delicate features and intense eyes debarked from a Volga ferry in Plyos, a tiny hamlet about sixty miles east of Yaroslavl.

    Escape to Old Russia 2006

  • It debarked from the same port as the Jura ferry did and while I was waiting I stared across to the island that had eluded me.

    In Search of Orwell's Scottish Retreat 1994

  • His forty hungry men had just hung the gate on their little stockade on April 17 when the French advance force of 500 men and eighteen cannons debarked from pirogues and canoes, formed ranks, and marched toward the fort.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • His forty hungry men had just hung the gate on their little stockade on April 17 when the French advance force of 500 men and eighteen cannons debarked from pirogues and canoes, formed ranks, and marched toward the fort.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Though he would continue to write about wine throughout his life, Mr. Lichine was a salesman at heart and debarked to New York to get in on the emerging market for French wines.

    Alexis Lichine's Roguish Revolution in Wine Jay McInerney 2011

  • His forty hungry men had just hung the gate on their little stockade on April 17 when the French advance force of 500 men and eighteen cannons debarked from pirogues and canoes, formed ranks, and marched toward the fort.

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Then Ellis Island was set up to get some paperwork and medical checkups done as the immigrants debarked – but you yourself say that there were few restrictions except for felons and carriers of communicable diseases until 1924.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The Immigration Debate and Racism 2010

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