How to Use boatyard in a Sentence

boatyard

noun
  • Huli Cat came back from the boatyard and is ready to rock & roll.
    — sacbee, 9 Apr. 2018
  • The eatery was going to have a deck and a two-story, six-slip boatyard.
    — David Smiley and Glenn Garvin, miamiherald, 19 June 2018
  • Many of these were shot in boatyards along the Connecticut coast.
    — Courant Community, 21 May 2018
  • Ice Cube’s cameo is right before the boatyard sequence.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 25 Dec. 2025
  • In footage taken by a local new outlet the boatyard was engulfed in flames and black smoke.
    — Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Ritz urged swimmers everywhere to stay out of the water near marinas, docks or boatyards.
    — Courtney Astolfi, cleveland.com, 19 June 2017
  • The Moores have spent decades in the fisheries business, since well before the boatyard existed.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2022
  • It was founded years ago on Innes Avenue in the Bayview district when there were lots of boatyards in the area.
    — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 9 Nov. 2019
  • Videos taken by Gibb of the boatyard show the fire engulfing boats, torching cars and burning structures.
    — Claudia Dominguez, CNN, 19 Aug. 2022
  • When Tonning first approached his industrial boatyard, she was greeted by his pet goat.
    — Robert Earle Howells, SFChronicle.com, 5 July 2018
  • Eventually, Christina said, the friend from the boatyard dropped off her husband’s wallet and a phone.
    — C.j. Chivers James Patrick Cronin Elena Hecht Anna Diamond Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 6 June 2024
  • Two female shrimp workers are still living in tents outside the boatyard near the dock, choosing to ride out the weather to stay close to their community.
    — Brianna Sacks, Anchorage Daily News, 17 July 2023
  • Bears have been a big topic of discussion around Naknek boatyards since one young fisherman was attacked earlier this month.
    — Author: Mitch Borden, Anchorage Daily News, 24 June 2018
  • To save even more money, Peterson was allowed to move into a small trailer in the Eichenlaub boatyard.
    — Bill Center, sandiegouniontribune.com, 3 July 2017
  • Smaller boats can be stored in a boatyard or a residential backyard, left in some marinas if prepped correctly or secured on a river or canal far from the coast.
    — Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 May 2026
  • Smaller boats can be stored in a boatyard or a residential backyard, left in some marinas if prepped correctly, or secured on a river or canal far from the coast.
    — Orlando Sentinel Staff, Orlando Sentinel, 31 May 2022
  • The marine industry is concerned the frequent drawbridge closings will block access to the river, canals, marinas and boatyards.
    — Wayne K. Roustan, Sun-Sentinel.com, 24 Jan. 2018
  • The next day, young Black hopefuls descended on Central Wharf, a bustling boatyard in the seaside town, to hear what the men had to say.
    — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026
  • The investigation determined that the fire began inside a building at the boatyard where a worker had been replacing a boat’s gas tank.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Moss Marina, a boatyard, wants to transform into a 400-room hotel complex with retail shops and restaurants.
    — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The boatyard — which sits on nearly 30 acres and has 20 buildings on site— is a one-stop shop for repairs, seasonal outfitting, storage, boat building and more.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 12 Mar. 2022
  • It had been salvaged from Hitler’s private yacht when it was broken up at a boatyard on the Delaware River, in 1951.
    — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2020
  • Since the boatyard is covered in several tons of concrete, the ceremony will be held around the bend at India Basin Shoreline Park.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 June 2021
  • In the last month the city of Sausalito won a battle to move that encampment to Marinship Park, the field just behind the boatyard, where many of their sailboats have gotten crushed.
    — Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 2021
  • At the opposite end of the boatyard, another giant, the Sea Rhapsody, was getting a final checkup before being put back into the water.
    — New York Times, 10 Jan. 2022
  • On a gray, late-winter day, a converted chapel in the Arsenal, the city’s medieval boatyard, hummed with 21st-century activity.
    — Marcello Rossi, WIRED, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Tonning talked her way into deckhand gigs on Zerlang’s tugboats and the Madaket, and immersed herself in the local maritime culture, taking up residence in a trailer at the boatyard.
    — Robert Earle Howells, SFChronicle.com, 5 July 2018
  • The yachts from a luxury boatyard like Feadship in the Netherlands all bear a family resemblance, but each has been imagined from the outset as its owner’s particular plaything.
    — WSJ, 27 May 2021
  • Nonetheless, Crowhurst managed to persuade a local businessman, Stanley Best, to pay for the building of his trimaran at a Norfolk boatyard.
    — Danielle Rossingh, CNN, 13 Mar. 2018
  • According to the agency, Senesco sent maintenance crews to a Steamship Authority boatyard in Fairhaven to help fix problems that surfaced this spring after the boats returned to service.
    — Matt Rocheleau, BostonGlobe.com, 26 May 2018

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