How To Use dockhand In A Sentence
- I leaned on the railing and watched teams of dockhands transferring crates to the waiting wagons.
- He lifts huge steel containers of cargo from ship to shore with a 130-foot-tall crane - moving far more cargo in an hour than he moved in a day as a dockhand 30 years ago.
- Making a cursory inquiry to several of the dockhands about if any of the ships needed a strong body, he slowly made his way down the pier.
- On a good night, weren't both establishments bursting with dockhands, sailors, river pirates, and errant swells?
- As readers and writers, legislators and city council members, farmers and dockhands, workers and employers, Northern men and women responded to this question with a public debate over the possible outcomes of emancipation.
- He was built more like a dockhand than a descendant of local aristocracy. The Glass Rainbow
- On shore dockhands caught the lines and shipyard guards with firearms held at port watched as they pulled the ship in and made it fast.
- Houseboating on Lake Powell, in the middle of the Great American Desert, is a totally different experience so we dutifully followed the dockhand's instructions on anchoring our boat - ‘Use a shovel,’ he said.
- I could never see Dr. Sofen making some crack about how she parphrased "has to hurry back for some marathon sex with a dockhand. THUNDERBOLTS #111 Marvel Comics, 2007
- Douglas Tanglewood ushered them all into a stylish Calash Coach, which possessed a hard, covered roof and curtains to screen them from outside scrutiny, since they were dressed as roughly as any dockhand out of Stepney. Ripping Time
