Example sentences for: dockyard

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

  • The Royal Naval Dockyard

  • In summer, cruise ships dock at the small port outside the main harbor wall, providing a good picture of how the working dockyard must have looked when it was home to British naval vessels.

  • Postwar, the British military presence dwindled, and the main sections of the dockyard were closed in 1951.

  • 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.

  • Starting in 1824, Britain sent convicts to Bermuda to supplement the slave labor working on the dockyard project.


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