How to Use berth in a Sentence

berth

1 of 2 noun
  • He has a starting berth on the all-star team.
  • There were not enough at-large berths for their mighty teams.
    — Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 14 May 2026
  • All three teams are fighting for a wild card berth.
    — Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The top six earn berths in the World Cup.
    — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The school has earned a bowl game berth in seven of the past eight years.
    — Kilty Cleary, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Weekend hikers gave the group a wide berth.
    — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Hopefully next year, not even a play-in (berth).
    — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Does the winner get the Rose Bowl berth?
    — Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Godley is still very much in the hunt for a post season berth as well.
    — Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Apr. 2026
  • This is a Super Bowl berth on the line.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 18 Jan. 2026
  • But she was granted a re-skate with an Olympic berth on the line.
    — Ren Clayton, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • First-ever berth in state finals.
    — Josh Krockey, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2026
  • One of the seven will win a permanent berth in the park.
    — Deborah Martin, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Mar. 2026
  • All three are certain to get one of the eight regional berths.
    — Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Their chance at a playoff berth is not zero, but is getting close to that.
    — Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 18 Apr. 2026
  • Some even got tattoos of his name during that year's playoff berth.
    — Cole Premo, CBS News, 25 June 2026
  • First playoff berth since 2017.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 8 Jan. 2026
  • On the sleeper berth with tears in her eyes—tears, though, of happiness.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Feb. 2026
  • His return should enable them to at least compete for a wild-card berth this year.
    — Jim Bowden, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Aaron Rodgers was brought in, and could spark the team to a postseason berth.
    — James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Evans finished on a 7-2 to run to clinch its third straight state tourney berth.
    — Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Five teams are chasing a postseason berth.
    — Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Toronto did not play with the urgency of a team with a playoff berth on the line.
    — ABC News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The pitching has largely powered four playoff berths in the last six years.
    — Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2025
  • That still leaves up to 11 open spots to fill out the 37 at-large berths that are up for grabs.
    — Jim Root, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Dallas was in an uphill spot for the last play-in berth in the West anyway.
    — Tim Reynolds, Chron, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Four years ago, Birkeland’s Olympic berth was a bit of a surprise.
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Their first postseason berth in eight campaigns.
    — Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 13 May 2026
  • There is bad news and good news to report on the Kings’ push for a fifth straight playoff berth.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The Padres are shooting for better than a playoff berth.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Sep. 2025

berth

2 of 2 verb
  • The ship berthed at this pier.
  • The ship was berthed at this pier.
  • Even crew members berthed over ballasted parts of the hold were at risk.
    — David Brown, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2020
  • The first Dragon berthed with the station in May of last year.
    — Michael Belfiore, Popular Mechanics, 30 Sep. 2013
  • Whalers from around the world flocked to this island as a place to berth their vessels between hunts in the southern seas.
    — Kraig Becker, Popular Mechanics, 20 June 2017
  • Most of the ship’s crew would have been asleep in the ship’s berthing compartments at the time of the predawn collision.
    — Chas Danner, Daily Intelligencer, 18 June 2017
  • While many complain about how much baseball has changed lately, success stories are berthed out of those who adapt.
    — Michael Beller, SI.com, 13 June 2018
  • Dry-berthing the ship will take about $40 million, but towing it away will cost about $30 million.
    — Jennifer Bolton, Houston Chronicle, 9 Jan. 2018
  • In 2011, Shawn’s ship was hit by a rocket attack while berthing in Afghanistan.
    — Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2026
  • The firm is not facing problems berthing vessels, and the force majeure was due to fall in demand because of virus outbreak.
    — Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2020
  • Their bodies were recovered hours later from berthing compartments flooded by the crash.
    — Jeanette Steele, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 June 2017
  • Another tanker could berth next to the ship and—while pumping inert gas into the Safer’s oil tanks—suck out its Marib crude.
    — The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Visitors can tour the vessel where it is berthed in Edinburgh, Scotland.
    — Brie Dyas, House Beautiful, 20 Oct. 2016
  • Each needs to be berthed, unloaded and reloaded, refueled and repositioned as well as piloted in and out of a complex harbor.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The dock will be 657 feet long, large enough to berth the Navy’s newest fast-attack submarines, and built to last 150 years.
    — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The company had planned to fly the vehicle close enough to the space station such that it could be captured and berthed to the orbiting laboratory.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The full-scape replica ship was built in England in the 1950s and has been berthed in Plymouth Harbor.
    — USA TODAY, 10 July 2019
  • Robber barons would berth their luxury sailing craft uptown for cruises to the sybaritic shores of Long Island Sound.
    — Gina Levay, Smithsonian, 29 May 2017
  • Robber barons would berth their luxury sailing craft uptown for cruises to the sybaritic shores of Long Island Sound.
    — Gina Levay, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • The tanker is scheduled to berth at the company's offshore mooring facility later Friday to unload its crude oil.
    — ABC News, 7 May 2026
  • At Huntington-Sunset and Dana Point harbors, vessels are berthed at docks and marina slips.
    — Hillary Davis, Daily Pilot, 4 May 2017
  • Toyota vehicles bound for shipment sit near a vehicle carrier ship berthed at the Nagoya Port in Tokai, Japan.
    — Paul Hannon, WSJ, 14 Feb. 2019
  • Despite intervention from the United Nations to approve the clearance of 14 vessels, the tankers were not able to berth.
    — Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Approximately a dozen ships have called or are berthed loading and unloading at the terminals in Seattle and Tacoma in recent days.
    — Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, 29 June 2017
  • Another 57 containers were reported damaged after the ship berthed at the Port of Long Beach.
    — Cierra Morgan, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Other stations have berths for space tourists, but very few aggressively focus on ferrying the super rich to low-earth (LEO) orbit.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 10 June 2019
  • The orbiting outpost's Canadarm2 grappled Cygnus XL that day, berthing it to the Unity module.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Flight controllers on the ground will next take control of the arm to berth the Cygnus on the Earth-facing port of the station's Unity Node 1 for unloading.
    — Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 13 Apr. 2026
  • They are all berthed directly beneath the flight path of the mighty Blue Angels, the final act in the weekend air show that traditionally draws tens of thousands of fans to viewing spots along the waterfront.
    — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 12 Oct. 2019
  • Many countries have become increasingly reluctant to grant entry to cruise ships after the infection of more than 700 people on a vessel berthed off Japan showed how quickly the virus could spread.
    — Jason Scott, Bloomberg.com, 10 Apr. 2020

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