Example sentences for: dock

How can you use “dock” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This was the commercial dock area in antiquity, and more recently the site of the modern city's slaughterhouse, not much frequented by tourists, although it is near the cemetery that contains the grave of John Keats.

  • To throw up a parcel onto the boat may be the opposite of to throw down that parcel onto the loading dock, but clearly throw up has a regurgitative meaning that throw down lacks.

  • Starting out from the centrally located North Marina, a harbor cruise takes you around the gigantic fortress-like grain silos for a close-up view of the ships in dock.

  • Adjacent to the Star Ferry terminal is Ocean Terminal, where international cruise ships dock, and the gigantic Harbour City, a complex of malls, hotels, and restaurants.

  • For centuries it was formed by the dumping of debris from the dock area, mostly pieces of broken amphoras, which then became compacted.


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