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Example sentences for "docked"

Lexicographically close words:
docile; docilely; docility; dock; docke; docker; dockers; docket; docketed; dockets
  1. Disqualifications--Hair lip, docked tail and any artificial means used to deceive the judge.

  2. These great docks, built by a Boston syndicate, have since been used by most of the large iron ships that are docked at the port of New York.

  3. Most of the large iron ships that are docked at the port of New York are hauled up here.

  4. And sometimes I would be reported, and docked of that day's dinner to boot.

  5. According to the plan we were first to make an oceanographical cruise of about two months in the North Atlantic, and then to return to Norway, where the Fram was to be docked and the remaining outfit and dogs taken on board.

  6. Robert had been full of chatter on the way back, but Wulf had responded only with short sentences, and after they had docked they went their separate ways.

  7. Twenty-five ships had docked inside the landing area, and more than 300 men were inside the facility.

  8. About two dozen ships were docked on the field, and workers were still hovering around tables in the work center.

  9. Every day or two another ship docked and new workers came in to join the crew.

  10. Came a day when the nurse smilingly helped her into a big lounging chair and stood by looking on while a hairdresser straightened and trimmed the haggled locks into a perfectly docked hair cut.

  11. How lovely and clean and bright she looked with her big, blue eyes and blond docked hair!

  12. As soon as the boat was docked Jed hurried into the broad bunk off the cabin passageway, while Tom and Joe, yawning with weariness, lay down on the engine-room lockers.

  13. They lay low, but watched, quietly until the tug had docked at the end of Sanderson's pier.

  14. I had toiled again in the afternoon in a dry-docked steamer, making all safe after shutting down.

  15. Lorenzo was to be dry-docked after dark, an' I saw that our luck was in.

  16. Not yet have the mists rolled from the heights which frown upon us all around, but the sun glitters on the docked shipping, silent save for the flapping of sea gulls and the clank of some fresh-water pump.

  17. He explained that the Osprey had been docked at Cavite during the winter; then detailed to her old station as guardship at Chemulpo, whence she was now on her way to Shanghai.

  18. I told her, if she pleased, we would land, and when I had docked my boat, I would accompany her where and as long as she liked.

  19. Upon our return, when I had docked my boat, as there were too many fish to carry up by hand to the grotto, I desired them to take a turn upon the shore till I fetched my cart for them.

  20. It was the means by which the ship would be docked in the giant lock which had been built to receive it.

  21. A rod with a rounded object at its end appeared past the docked supply ship.

  22. Well may the question be asked--What was Reese doing just as the Verona docked in Everett on November 5th?

  23. They drove us all in alongside of the boiler between the decks, down on the main deck of the "Edison" and kept us there till they docked and got automobiles and the patrol wagon and filed us off into them and took us to jail.

  24. To the WHITE PILE, looking insolently at his docked comb]--that you look like a Fool who has mislaid his coxcomb!

  25. He wears on his head--[Stopping short at sight of his docked comb.

  26. Had my friend been big enough to rise supreme over horses with docked tails, to subjugate a butler, to defy the next of kin and manage the wife (without letting her know it), all would have been well.

  27. He rode behind horses that had docked tails, and apologized for being on earth, to an awful butler in solemn black.

  28. If they docked that night Miss Elliston could spend it with them.

  29. It was quite likely, she told herself, that there would be a letter from France this morning--a steamer had docked on Thursday, another yesterday.

  30. Sunday's coat was fairly off and away, docked by the hainch buttons.

  31. The minister sent an old black coat beneath his maid's arm, pinned up in a towel, to get docked in the tails down into a jacket; which I trust I did to his entire satisfaction, making it fit to a hair.

  32. The third girl wore a businesslike beaver hat over her blond docked hair, and her great eyes, blue and steady, were levelled across Elise, who knitted on in silence, to the dark girl in the velvet cap.

  33. At the right was a dark-haired, fairylike child on whose docked hair a velvet beret, or French officer's cap, sat jauntily.

  34. With the first smell of the Channel away went the remembrance of all troubles, and eventually the ship was docked and I stepped on shore from the Lord Nelson “out of my time” and a free man.

  35. We made the run from the meridian of the Cape to Adelaide in twenty days, which was very fair work, and duly docked the ship and started to discharge cargo.

  36. TAIL--Should be docked from five to seven inches, set low, and not carried above the level of the back, thickly clothed with moderately long feather.

  37. What's the use of us all getting docked when you can't do any good here?

  38. There's no use your gettin' docked a whole day.

  39. Those preposterous coats, the tails docked to the size of the boys, did not improve the appearance of the Frogs.

  40. Which docked the run considerably, for we had to be in at six to tea.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "docked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abbreviated; abridged; abstracted; aphoristic; brief; brusque; butchered; capsule; castrated; clipped; close; compact; compendious; compressed; concise; condensed; contracted; crisp; cropped; curt; curtailed; cut; docked; elliptic; elliptical; garbled; gnomic; laconic; mangled; mowed; mutilated; nipped; pithy; pointed; pruned; reserved; sententious; shaved; sheared; short; shortened; snub; succinct; summary; taciturn; terse; tight; trimmed; truncated