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Example sentences for "docking"

Lexicographically close words:
docker; dockers; docket; docketed; dockets; docks; dockside; dockyard; dockyards; docs
  1. It builds all boats, has charge of the docking of vessels and the care of ships in reserve.

  2. The Italians saw in him a pedantic foreign professor, blind to the beauty of classical antiquity, penuriously docking the stipends of great artists.

  3. First, as regards her docks and docking accommodation.

  4. Docking accommodation for the repair of vessels was also put in hand by the Harbour Board.

  5. In docking lambs we have had the best success when the sign was at Taurus, Neck.

  6. To sear lambs, the docking corral is arranged the same as when you dock with the knife.

  7. Docking lambs in old corrals is dangerous, because it is unsanitary--many lambs are likely to die if left standing in old corrals after being cut at docking time.

  8. Towards the end of this month I attended at Deptford to the docking of the Dreadnought.

  9. Towards the end of December, I was appointed by the Officers of the Navy to take charge of docking the Vanguard at Woolwich, which I presently took order in, to have the dock fitted and prepared for that purpose.

  10. After the Nardak was in the hangar, the ground crew stepped forward and fastened her ropes through the iron rings in concrete pillars that studded the floor here and there on either side of the docking rails.

  11. Then a long line of trucks appeared, running smoothly over the docking rails.

  12. Docking should never be left until the eyes open and the nervous system is fully organized.

  13. Docking should be done by a skilled veterinary surgeon, with proper antiseptic precautions.

  14. Docking Is practised by many, but merely to gratify an absurd and cruel caprice, without a single advantage, and the animal is better in every respect with the tail unmutilated.

  15. The Archangel water-front has miles of good docking facilities.

  16. It is of the double-sided self-docking type, on the principle known as the “bolted sectional.

  17. The Dock, one of the largest yet built, is capable of docking the largest existing vessel in the British Navy.

  18. With a prayer to the God of those who help themselves, he burst from the passage into the great open of the docking and sped straight for the bay.

  19. The flying squadron has sailed after having awaited the return of the "Inconstant" from docking at Nagasaki.

  20. On floating it was found that a slight damage to the Kingston valve had been overlooked, and as the ship was still making water, it was thought a second docking would be necessary.

  21. Here Mr. Ferret thought proper to intermingle in the conversation with a "Pish, what dost talk of docking the intail?

  22. He estimated the cost of the docking and repair work at fifty thousand dollars, and, desiring to play safe, insisted that Matt Peasley should advance at least fifty per cent.

  23. Yes; that was a grave oversight sending you to Antofagasta without docking you first.

  24. The information that the whistling buoy off Duxbury Reef had gone adrift and that Blunt's Reef Lightship would be withdrawn for fifteen days for repairs and docking interested him but little, however.

  25. Once more, in October of the same year she made a successful round trip, docking this time in New London.

  26. What it did demonstrate was that the Zeppelin, like the one-thousand-foot ocean liner, must have adequate harbour and docking facilities wherever it is to land.

  27. This was readily granted, and the next day I went on shore to see him myself, in relation to docking and repairing my ship.

  28. A protected docking location and a natural telemetry base.

  29. Nothing has been left undone in the way of providing docking facilities, and the rolling stock is in excellent condition and great abundance.

  30. But they are the facts that make it impossible for really independent lines of steamboats to run between New York and Providence for any great length of time, despite ample docking facilities and a great free port at each of these cities.

  31. It may be an important point for lake, river, or ocean traffic; and in such a case, the industries at docks and docking facilities of every sort form other busy functions.

  32. The opponents of docking are not persons who have driven high-spirited horses or who know anything about either tandem or four-in-hand driving.

  33. Docking is not, as its opponents assert, a senseless fashion, but is founded on reason.

  34. The arguments used against docking are first that it is cruel and second that it prevents a horse from brushing off the flies.

  35. I should be glad to learn when the practice of docking horses' tails commenced in England, or in any country of Europe, and what was the immediate cause of this amputation?

  36. With engraving The Launching and Docking of Ships Sidewise.

  37. Regular docking with piles and timbers is resorted to, but it is so expensive for small works that it is not often tried.

  38. All this was very interesting to Steve Rush, for it will be remembered that he had never watched the docking of an ore boat before.

  39. Wait till I get through docking the ship, and then tell me all about it.

  40. Before they come changes and improvements must be made in the docking and harbor facilities of the port of New York.

  41. Docking space along the shore of New York harbor is too valuable to permit the ship being berthed parallel to the shore, therefore vessels must dock at right angles to the shore.

  42. In addition to the telephones, the means of communication included engine and docking telegraphs, and duplicate or emergency engine-room telegraph, to be used in the event of any accident to the ordinary telegraph.

  43. Arranged above the poop was a light docking bridge, with telephone, telegraphs, etc.

  44. His mother had only appeared to him, as it were in dreams, smelling delicious, smoothing his forehead just before he fell asleep, and sometimes docking his hair, of a golden brown colour.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "docking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    apogee; burn; capsule; docking; injection; insertion; landing; module; mooring; orbit; perigee; rocket; spacecraft; spaceship