How to Use the docks in a Sentence

the docks

plural noun

• Others crashed up against the docks or went down with their boats.
  — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
• On this call, O’Brien tells me he’s just returned from the docks in Cleveland.
  — Jo Thomas, Detroit Free Press, 14 Jan. 2024
• The chamber has found about 20 bodies washed up onto the beach or by the docks.
  — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
• The fish usually come to the docks in New England and the mid-Atlantic states.
  — Fox News, 5 July 2022
• The fire spared the remainder of the facilities on the ground, including the docks and the yachts moored there.
  — Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023
• The industry brought about 98 million pounds of lobster to the docks last year.
  — Patrick Whittle, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023
• With downtown only about a mile from the docks, the city has set its sights on filling the space that lies in between.
  — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 5 July 2024
• Watch the swans drift by my windows and, in the summer, the neighborhood kids swimming and swinging off the docks.
  — Kadish Morris, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2024
• That fall, the docks at Pier 39 had just finished being remodeled, but the boats hadn't moved back in yet.
  — Emma Bowman, NPR, 4 May 2024
• While the houseboats are private properties, owners have to pay rental fees for the land and the docks to which they are tied up.
  — Hatem Maher, ABC News, 28 June 2022
• Of course, the docks off Flagler Street will be filled with yachts of all shapes and sizes from all of the world’s most popular shipbuilders.
  — Bill Springer, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• Most of the docks were replaced in the 1980s, but the harsh marine environment has taken its toll.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2023
• At the docks across the street, fisherman Bill Blue, 66, unloaded scores of black cod from his boat, the Brita Michell, in the shadow of the smokestacks.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2022
• Only a few boats remained at the docks once Alexander’s was safely hitched to a red pickup truck.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
• The elvers have again been worth more than $2,000 per pound at the docks this year, according to the Maine Department of Marine Resources.
  — Patrick Whittle, Fortune, 27 May 2023
• The American lobster fishery was worth more than $510 million at the docks last year.
  — Patrick Whittle, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023
• Under the docks near the French Quarter, pilings that would normally be submerged were exposed to the air.
  — Maria Clark, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2022
• Sea lions have long been known to populate the docks around Newport’s Historic Bayfront area.
  — oregonlive, 10 Jan. 2023
• The lobster industry, based mostly in Maine, has had an unprecedented decade in terms of the volume and value of the lobsters brought to the docks.
  — Patrick Whittle, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2024
• Huerta grew up in Wilmington, a working-class neighborhood that hugs the docks of the Port of Los Angeles.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2023
• Its simpler aspect was the case Sunday for two chefs enjoying their dinner break seated on one of the docks lining the Grand Canal here.
  — Sandra Salibian, WWD, 2 Sep. 2024
• Nothing hit the docks to rival an apparent state record-breaker brought in on Friday, a 1,019-pound tiger shark caught by Brett Rutledge.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 24 July 2023
• Allen jumps off the docks in the film's ending, helps Madison fight off villains, and swims into happily ever after with her by his side.
  — Esme Mazzeo, Peoplemag, 9 Mar. 2024
• Jean sometimes wears men’s clothes and avails herself of male privileges, taking Eliza on long walks down to the docks and into the surrounding woodlands.
  — Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2022
• His father, Watts Richard King, who was from Barbados, was a union secretary in addition to working on the docks.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2023
• On the docks, brokers parse the crowd according to a taxonomy of potential.
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 18 July 2022
• At the docks in Longyearbyan, Svalbard, the main settlement of the island archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, the other boats had big icicles hanging from the hulls.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 3 June 2022
• Every day, hundreds of people went down to the docks in the hope of escaping the Franco-Prussian War; only later would Monet learn that some of his best friends had shoved through the same crowd.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2024
• One portion of the docks – a 40-boat slip – was temporarily wedged there and the other – an 18-boat slip – was wedged across the river along the Taylor Slough, blocking private docks on Bethel Island.
  — Judith Prieve, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2024
• An unusually large herd of sea lions hauled out of the bay waters to hang out on the docks at Pier 39, a popular tourist destination.
  — Emma Bowman, NPR, 4 May 2024

Last Updated: 28 Nov 2024