How to Use depot in a Sentence

depot

noun
  • The house, the milk depot and the school have all been torn down.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The driver, who was at the start of his shift, pulled his bus out of a depot.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Plains has a train depot, a general store that sells peanut ice cream, and not much else.
    — Washington Post, 10 July 2021
  • The depot is also off-limits to people who do not work there.
    — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Paris police used tear gas to disperse a pre-dawn blockade of a bus depot.
    — Dan Gooding jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • It is lined with tin and could be packed with ice for replenishing at each depot.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2019
  • Will Home depot be open on Easter?
    — Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 2 Apr. 2026
  • They can be seen at train stations and bus depots as well as riding on transit.
    — Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 15 Jan. 2026
  • When you're finished, a remote driver would guide it back to a depot.
    — Joann Muller, Axios, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Smoke rises over oil depot tanks in northwest Tehran.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC news, 9 Mar. 2026
  • If these parts don't talk to each other in real time, even the best e-bus won't leave the depot on time.
    — Karl Moore, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025
  • At last, the robot parked in front of a Cainiao depot in a far corner of campus.
    — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Videos posted on social media showed a large blaze and thick black smoke rising from the depot.
    — Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Their white colleagues, who were often drivers, showered at the depot at the end of their shifts.
    — Kurtis Lee, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Local authorities said a drone strike on the depot had caused a large-scale fire across a wide area.
    — Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2026
  • There are 13 depots across the county that act as transfer hubs for students.
    — The Courier-Journal, 21 Aug. 2023
  • This small timber town was home to the large Union train depot; surprising for such a small town.
    — Ray Hanley, arkansasonline.com, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Their name was affixed to the Boas Hotel, which sat in front of the tracks near the depot.
    — Ray Hanley, arkansasonline.com, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Now the spacecraft nears the moon and prepares to dock at a fuel depot in high lunar orbit.
    — Chuck Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 24 July 2019
  • With no depot to visit the car or its owner must handle everything.
    — Brad Templeton, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Any funds to purchase the depot would come from fees generated by cargo and cruise ships.
    — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 4 June 2026
  • Fars also reported a depot was hit in the nearby city of Karaj.
    — Omer Bekin, NBC news, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Smoke rises from Shahran oil depot Sunday.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC news, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Now, the rover is setting up a depot of samples that will be stored on the Martian surface.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 27 Dec. 2022
  • On May 20th, a sunny day, Volodymyr rode his bike to the depot, and drove a tram out.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The train depot for the site is at 1090 Overseas Hwy.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 25 Feb. 2026
  • When that happens, workers have to swap in a fresh battery and bring the dead ones to outer-borough depots for juice.
    — John Surico, Curbed, 24 July 2023
  • But due to financial troubles, the depot is closing.
    — Kayla Moeller, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Smoke plumes rise from a fuel depot in Odessa that was hit by Russian forces in April.
    — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The land where the museum was to be built is owned by the city by the railroad depot in Old Town.
    — Paul Wedding, Houston Chronicle, 4 Aug. 2020

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