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How to use the word docks in a Sentence?

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It’s impossible not to think about our past and our path. We’re blocks away from the Annapolis docks, where so many enslaved people arrived in this country against their will, and we are standing in front of a capitol that was built by their hands. We have made uneven and unimaginable progress since then.

Wes Moore

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We saw the number of imports move off the docks into the domestic supply chain much more quickly, once we announced the threat of a penalty.

Gene Seroka

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Theyre really coming over with a lethal weapon--a very heavy boat--that smashes into our docks and our decks and causes very expensive damage to our homes.

Connie Strycker

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Late July, he was here at the farm helping me put docks in at the pond.

Mark McChesney

Found on CNN
4 years ago

By using this, he was able to show men who had never ever been to see a slave trip or had visited any docks, or warehouses or plantations themselves ... how terrible the conditions for the enslaved Africans were on board these ships.

Rebecca Nelson

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This to me is a fine example of how space technology becomes ever more extraordinary by building upon its prior successes, we use formation flying in space every time a capsule docks at the International Space Station. But Michael and Thibault have gone far beyond that, and shown a way to maintain formation over scales larger than Earth itself.

Phil Willems

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We've aggressively gone after readiness challenges in our operational submarine fleet, and identified three key drivers : public shipyard capacity, shipyard productivity and parts availability, working with our industry partners, we've been able to allocate multiple submarines to private shipyards in order to alleviate the disparity between demand and capacity within our public shipyards. Our first-ever Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Plan, delivered to Congress earlier this year, establishes our road map to upgrade our dry docks, facilities and equipment to improve overall productivity.

Naval Operations Adm. William Moran

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I have not seen this many sea lions before in one place, i am worried about the damages they are making, I've been told they already damaged one of the docks.

Mike Graham

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Right now our workers are trying to put up some temporary-type fencing, the animals are so large that they do significant damage coming on and off the docks.

Rainier City Manager Debbie Dudley

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Extra officers were on duty in the town to allow a march to the Eastern Docks and a separate protest in the town center to go ahead as planned, while minimizing disorder and disruption to the community.

Kent Police

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Teacher my arse. I'd be better off on the docks and the warehouses, lifting, hauling, cursing, eating hero sandwiches, drinking beer, chasing waterfront floozies. At least I'd be with my own kind, my own class of people, not getting above meself, acushla.

Frank McCourt

added by anonymous
8 years ago

When you think about all of the strategic places that these guys are in, it's not just truck stops, it's rest areas, it's hotels and motels, it's gas stations, it's busy city streets, loading docks, they're trained to be vigilant and observant in the course of their everyday jobs. When you factor all that in, it really is a smart audience to educate and work with.

Kendis Paris

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The hands that are spaced are docks, where desires can dock. (Les mains écartées sont des quais, - Où les désirs peuvent accoster.)

Charles de LEUSSE

added by anonymous
8 years ago

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