DOCK in a Sentence

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For DOCK, below is one of 27 sentences:
The well-equipped docks, tall piles of cargo containers, and numerous vessels being loaded all betoken Oakland's importance as a port.

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 Meanings and Examples of DOCK
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dock
 n.  solid bony part of the tail of animal; platform where trucks, ship, or trains can be loaded or unloaded
Classic Sentence:
1  Involuntarily I glanced seaward--and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
2  Now it was again a green light on a dock.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
3  And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
4  No objection was made to my getting close to the dock, on the outside of it, and holding the hand that he stretched forth to me.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LVI
5  He followed mechanically to the end of the dock, and sat down on a chair.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
6  You hope to place me in the dock.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
7  I tell you that I will never stand in the dock.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
8  A clanging dock where steel cranes unloaded steamers from Buenos Ayres and Tsing-tao.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
9  It was said that he was at the head of a combine worth more than a million dollars, with Wilmington as its headquarters for the purpose of buying blockade goods on the docks.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  In thoroughfares nigh the docks, any considerable seaport will frequently offer to view the queerest looking nondescripts from foreign parts.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6. The Street.
11  But now the spell had been upon him eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the effects.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  They will dock us of two days of our annual leave.
2  The ship arrived at the dock more than a day late.
3  In dry dock, we scraped off the incrustation of dirt and barnacles that covered the hull of the ship.
4  The judge looked over to the prisoner in the dock.
5  The regeneration of the city's downtown dock front will put it on a par with Nice or Cannes.
6  In a scruffy courtroom with breeze-block walls, the dock is empty, defendants no longer appear in person.
7  The guards slipped past on either side to sprint across the docks.
8  The well-equipped docks, tall piles of cargo containers, and numerous vessels being loaded all betoken Oakland's importance as a port.
9  The hangar is half a mile long, and is bounded on one side by the docks where the ships are discharging.
10  The storehouse was built close to the docks.
11  The Act was introduced to end restrictive practices in the docks.
12  The transformation from disused docks into city-centre cultural venue took three years.
13  She headed for the docks, thinking that Ricardo might be hiding in one of the boats.
14  The strike has led to the cancellation of some ferry services and left hundreds of passengers stranded at the docks.
15  The people would be docked in the port from a cruise ship.