How to Use derrick in a Sentence

derrick

noun

• The heat from the fire caused the derrick to collapse, which spread the flames across the site.
  — CBS News, 22 Jan. 2018
• The lines from the derrick were attached to the center of the spire to keep it straight.
  — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2019
• The crown block has a pulley system and is located at the top of the derrick.
  — Dallas News, 21 Oct. 2022
• On the floor in front of the table are two model oil derricks, painted gold.
  — Nick Chrastil, Slate Magazine, 16 Oct. 2017
• An oil derrick stands above the plains north of Amarillo, Texas.
  — Stephanie Yang, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
• Minarets pierced the mild moon, so different from the oil derricks the House of Nobel had erected.
  — Joshua Kucera, Slate Magazine, 6 Feb. 2017
• Baldwin Hills and its crown of oil derricks hovered in the hazy distance.
  — Scott Garner, latimes.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• Rumors surfaced that the derrick was there to lift a 60-foot flagpole.
  — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 27 Mar. 2019
• Among them is Nova, who, as a child, watched her father get crushed by an oil derrick.
  — Ella Riley-Adams, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2023
• In the 1920s, much of the Los Angeles Basin was covered with a forest of wooden oil derricks.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2023
• One stevedore told me he has seen divers sent down to tie chains to cars that fall into the harbor so that the derrick could lift them back out.
  — Rowan Moore Gerety, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• More than a century ago, the area was home to oil derricks owned by the Hancock family.
  — Vanessa Lawrence, ELLE Decor, 6 Feb. 2018
• Huntington Beach High School’s football team is still called the Oilers, and its icon is an oil derrick.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2021
• The explosion at the drilling site near Quinton, about 100 miles southeast of Tulsa, sent plumes of black smoke into the air and left a derrick crumpled on the ground.
  — CBS News, 23 Jan. 2018
• Now several thousand people live and work here, and the oil fields are chockablock with derricks, many as close as 10 feet apart.
  — Photographs and Text By Adam Dean, New York Times, 22 May 2017
• Zora Chung, the company’s cofounder and CFO, points to an oil derrick lodged in the startup’s parking lot.
  — Aarian Marshall, Wired, 2 Nov. 2021
• More than 600 bucket, utility and trailer trucks, and derricks to dig holes in the islands’ rocky terrain were shipped in by barge.
  — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2018
• He and Shawn Camp had visited this oil derrick museum and there was a windmill with a barb wire nest that some crows had made.
  — Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 13 Aug. 2019
• As a dinghy approached, a newish Infiniti FX35 appeared high above the Magestic’s deck, tethered to the derrick with thick nylon straps at the ends of steel cables.
  — Rowan Moore Gerety, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• Today, County Road 49 is so crowded with oil derricks and tanks that some residents call it the Frack Freeway.
  — Julie Turkewitz, New York Times, 31 May 2018
• Through this seawater, the IODP team lowered kilometers of pipe from a derrick more than 60 meters high.
  — Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American, 4 Mar. 2021
• In the 1960s, as oil became the dominant industry in town, petroleum was added to the name and the logo became a shrimp in a hard hat wrapped around an oil derrick.
  — Nick Chrastil, Slate Magazine, 16 Oct. 2017
• Start with the city’s beloved incarnation of Pegasus, the mythical red neon horse who spreads her wings on a 22-foot oil derrick in front of the Omni Hotel.
  — Ava Graham, Dallas News, 21 May 2023
• What remains is a ghost town with a 19th-century residence, schoolhouse, derrick, and barn.
  — Los Angeles Magazine, 22 Feb. 2018
• At various points in its history, the Sandy Jug has also included a towering oil derrick and an 8-ball stopper painted at the top of the jug.
  — Mrussell, oregonlive, 9 Aug. 2023
• The state Capitol itself sits atop a giant oilfield, and an oil derrick stands outside the building as a symbol of the industry’s importance.
  — Washington Post, 23 May 2017
• The helmet featured a Columbia Blue oil derrick outlined in scarlet.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 4 May 2023
• Indian burial grounds, oil derricks and the city’s sordid, riotous history all come up.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, www.latimes.com, 7 June 2018
• On Harrison’s way out of town, in Santa Paula, eager locals clambered aboard his train to present him with a 5-foot-tall model of an oil derrick, made entirely of flowers.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2022
• By the 1920s, that terrain, once a sparsely populated stretch of Osage reservation, is covered with bustling small towns, those towering derricks and an awful lot of cattle.
  — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024