Examples of gangplank

• As soon as the gangplank was down, I slipped aboard and met the steward. 

• He came up the gangplank with the strong, firm tread of a man in his prime. 

• Presently the soldiers began coming down the gangplank. 

• The two girls strode bravely up the single, rickety board that served as the gangplank of the shanty boat. 

• When he was half-way across the gangplank it broke and the Irishman fell in. 

• It is no good their standing staring at the great tide of passengers coming down the gangplank or into the departure lounge.

• He talked about a gangplank to the dole queue.

• But it might also be said, sadly, that the scheme will for tens of thousands of youngsters, be a gangplank from school to the humiliation and frustration of the dole.