Get Free Checker

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.
Enhance Your English Writing Skills
Fix common errors and boost your confidence in every sentence.
Get started
for free
Enhance Your English Writing Skills
  • 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
  • I could never see Dr. Sofen making some crack about how she paraphrased "has to hurry back for some marathon sex with a dockhand. THUNDERBOLTS #111 Marvel Comics, 2007
  • Maybrick's pulse flared like the lightning overhead as he stood there in the darkness, listening to the rustle of skirts and clothing hastily switched about, the sharp sounds of the dockhand shifting his hobnailed boots on the pavement as he pressed the cheap trollop back into a convenient corner, the heavy breaths and meaty sounds of flesh coming together, slow and rhythmic and hard. Ripping Time
  • Even without the rags and the apparent mistreatment of being held there, the man looked the perfect part of the poor man, the simple dockhand.
  • Of course, the marina dockhands were busy fueling boats.
  • Dockhands caught the lines and pulled the ship in and made it fast.
  • Legend has a dockhand making the rounds of the moored fishing boats and crying out, "Chip in, chip in"—which in a heavy Italian accent became "cioppino"—while gathering the makings of the common daily meal. The Catchiest Fish Stew
  • Legend has a dockhand making the rounds of the moored fishing boats and crying out, "Chip in, chip in"—which in a heavy Italian accent became "cioppino"—while gathering the makings of the common daily meal. The Catchiest Fish Stew
  • Hurry, she must be thinking, hurry up and finish, I'm drunk and need a bed for the night and they'll be along with the money for the letters soon, so get on with it and spend your spunk, you great ugly lout of a dockhand ... Ripping Time
  • The port district, although deserted by sailors and dockhands by nightfall, still played host to a vast syndicate of criminals.
  • The dockhand howled in pain as the short sword clattered to the floor. Curse of the Shadowmage

Report a problem

Please indicate a type of error

Additional information (optional):