Example sentences for: dockyard

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

  • They wanted to create a “Gibraltar of the West” and set about building a large naval dockyard on Ireland Island, at the opposite end of the archipelago from the main population center of St. George’s.

  • An intriguing wreck lies at Spanish Point, part of the floating dock (the second largest in the world) that once sat at the Royal Naval Dockyard.

  • The fort was begun in 1869 to protect the land route to the naval dockyard at the end of the island.

  • Many died from disease and malnutrition before the work was complete, but the dockyard proved to be a bastion of the British Empire and served to protect the motherland even as recently as World War II.

  • The Bermuda Pottery (at the Royal Naval Dockyard) produces a number of patterns, several with island themes.


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