How to Use the docks in a Sentence

the docks

plural noun
  • The sun spilled across the docks and dunes.
    — Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Others crashed up against the docks or went down with their boats.
    — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
  • On the docks and at the seafood counter, the results are remarkable.
    — Amanda Leland, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Black and Irish workers competed for jobs on the docks.
    — Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The chamber has found about 20 bodies washed up onto the beach or by the docks.
    — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
  • From the docks, ferries run to the city of Bukavu, a hundred and twenty miles down the shore.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • That inspired me to walk off lunch by taking a circuitous stroll down to the docks in search of a water taxi.
    — Denny Lee, Travel + Leisure, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Barreto stressed that safety starts before leaving the docks.
    — Steve Maugeri, CBS News, 24 May 2026
  • With downtown only about a mile from the docks, the city has set its sights on filling the space that lies in between.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 5 July 2024
  • With downtown only about a mile from the docks, the city has set its sights on filling the space that lies in between.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2026
  • The industry brought about 98 million pounds of lobster to the docks last year.
    — Patrick Whittle, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Toth is soon tossed out by his brother and ends up living at a shelter, shoveling coal at the docks for work.
    — Anthony Paletta, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The jumpers leaped from the end of the docks set up by the Evergreen Lake House.
    — Cbscolorado.com Staff, CBS News, 2 Mar. 2026
  • While the houseboats are private properties, owners have to pay rental fees for the land and the docks to which they are tied up.
    — Hatem Maher, ABC News, 28 June 2022
  • The two were spotted walking hand-in-hand to the docks, going out for a swim and even kayaking together.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Only a few boats remained at the docks once Alexander’s was safely hitched to a red pickup truck.
    — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Enjoy fresh oysters on the docks at Westport Sea Farms.
    — Anna Laird Barto, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2026
  • Enjoy fresh oysters on the docks at Westport Sea Farms.
    — Anna Laird Barto, Travel + Leisure, 17 Nov. 2025
  • At the docks, some of the plant’s 850 robots unload parts from the hydrogen trucks.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2025
  • During the Blitz, nightly waves of German bombers were sent to destroy the docks.
    — Hari Kunzru, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • This year, there were 23 new shipyards along the docks, with exhibitors from 45 countries.
    — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Watch the swans drift by my windows and, in the summer, the neighborhood kids swimming and swinging off the docks.
    — Kadish Morris, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Several men at the docks made a great show of tossing all the luggage from man to man to man, then piling it neatly on the shore.
    — Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The fire spared the remainder of the facilities on the ground, including the docks and the yachts moored there.
    — Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023
  • On the docks in Islamorada, travelers can hand-feed tarpon that are more than six feet long.
    — Sarah Rose, Travel + Leisure, 25 June 2026
  • Chonkers has been spotted at the docks early in the morning but is harder to pin down during the rest of the day, Gill said.
    — ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • In the mornings, owners and their crews buzzed around the docks, readying giant, high-tech sails, tying off lines, and loading gear.
    — Tonya Russell, Robb Report, 23 Sep. 2024
  • That fall, the docks at Pier 39 had just finished being remodeled, but the boats hadn't moved back in yet.
    — Emma Bowman, NPR, 4 May 2024
  • The fish usually come to the docks in New England and the mid-Atlantic states.
    — Fox News, 5 July 2022
  • The teen was with a group at the Stetson Aquatic Center, hanging out by the docks.
    — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 8 Apr. 2026

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