Dock

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"Dock" in a Sentence (25 examples)

The ship is now in dock for a refit.

Tom was sunbathing on the dock.

Tom tied his boat to the dock.

Tom likes to sit on the dock with his feet dangling in the water.

Tom likes to sit on the dock playing his tin whistle while looking at the sunset.

The huge tanker has just left the dock.

A huge tanker just pulled out from the dock.

Tom is on the dock.

Tom usually fishes off the dock, but sometimes he fishes from the shore.

There are a number of fishing boats tied up at the dock.

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And vnder neath him his courageous ſteed, / The fierce Spumador trode them downe like docks […]

The Dock is about 1 inch thick, and two inches broad, like an Apothecaries Spatule. Of what length the whole, is uncertain, this being only part of it, though it looks as if cut off near the Buttock

And on a Cuſhion ſtuffed with Flocks, / She clapt her dainty pair of Docks.

The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.[…]Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.

Her wages were docked by ten dollars.

The team have been docked six points at Paris 2024 and Priestman received a one-year football ban from world governing body Fifa.

They docked me ten dollars for breaking the vase.

to dock an entail

Pricking holes in the rolled-out pie dough allows the steam to escape while it's baking. Without this, the steam would puff up in bubbles and pockets throughout the crust, which would make some parts of the crust cook too quickly and also result in an uneven surface for your filling. Docking is simple. Just roll out your pie dough and lift it into the pan. After pressing it in and shaping the edge, prick it all over with a fork.

With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks.

coffee dock

On 28 February, for example, a US Navy ship docked in Nampo, the port for Pyongyang, with equipment for joint searches for remains of US soldiers missing from the 1950-1953 Korean War. China may look askance at the US and North Korean militaries working together like this.

to dock spacecraft

A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.

I docked the laptop and allowed it to recharge for an hour.

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