How to Use dockyard in a Sentence

dockyard

noun

• Laze aboard, visit the dockyard, or take a tender to swim and snorkel.
  — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 2 June 2021
• There would be a meeting point somewhere outside a dockyard or in a parking lot near a pier.
  — New York Times, 15 June 2021
• The brand new carrier left its dockyard in Rosyth for the first time on Monday, where it was assembled from subsections built all over the UK.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 June 2017
• Sailors, many of them already desperately ill, stumbled down the gangplank and into the dockyards of Messina.
  — Anne Thériault, Longreads, 3 July 2018
• Most Pakistanis and Bangladeshis who came to Britain after the second world war were drawn to existing Muslim communities around cotton mills or dockyards.
  — The Economist, 17 May 2018
• The town was literally ablaze, the dry dock and dockyard buildings completely demolished and everywhere wounded and dead.
  — Marc Wortman, Smithsonian, 15 July 2017
• The town was literally ablaze, the dry dock and dockyard buildings completely demolished and everywhere wounded and dead.
  — Marc Wortman, Smithsonian, 14 July 2017
• Another large protest took place in Mandalay, where police shot dead two people on Saturday near a dockyard as security forces were trying to force workers to load a boat.
  — NBC News, 21 Feb. 2021
• Demonstrators turned out in force in Mandalay, the country’s second-biggest city, where security forces shot dead two people on Saturday near a dockyard where the authorities had been trying to force workers to load a boat.
  — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Feb. 2021
• That’s because the design studio’s latest innovative concept is a multi-purpose superyacht that doubles as a dockyard for small tenders servicing the high seas.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 19 July 2021
• The normal winter overhaul schedule takes other ferries offline for various periods this winter, and three ferries — including the new Hubbard and Tazlina — will be unusable because of dockyard work.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2019
• Twenty-two percent of coastal regions receive a similar degree of artificial illumination, with light emanating from sources such as housing developments, promenades, ports, harbors and dockyards.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 11 July 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024