How To Use Dockside In A Sentence

  • I was looking closely at the rigging last week and noticed the backstay was very loose (not under sail, just dockside).
  • He turned slowly around the room, getting used to the feel of the boat again, with subtle hum of the engines, and the gentle tug as she moved away from the moorings at dockside.
  • It is exceedingly difficult to misapprehend discovering my wife in a dockside tavern. DEVIL'S BRIDE
  • The new dockside casino will be connected to the property's existing pavilion in a seamless manner, providing a land-based feel for the property.
  • Following immigration we were soon back on the dockside watching the crew again.
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  • At the end of the Cold War, Russia was left with nearly 200 nuclear submarines rusting at the dockside.
  • By 1900, Cardiff was exporting 5 million tons of coal annually from more than 14 miles of seething dockside wharfage. Storyteller
  • There was swing and jive in the dance halls, mambo in the bars, boogie-woogie piano playing in the dockside cathouses. DESPERADOES
  • The dockside gaming provision went into effect immediately.
  • Evan came with us to the dockside, having previously checked which of the great hulls looming against the skyline was the Dover ferry.
  • As the Corinthian soldiers immediately snapped to attention, each Paladamian ship made its way slowly to the dockside.
  • The dockside charging station was the size of a telephone booth.
  • Suddenly Sakamoto spotted the ship, she was like a sitting duck at dockside.
  • Instead of viaducts and smokestacks, the dockside arts complex that bears his name is built with shards of sunlight and steel.
  • On deck I found the gangplank and made it to the safety of the dockside.
  • There was swing and jive in the dance halls, mambo in the bars, boogie-woogie piano playing in the dockside cathouses. DESPERADOES
  • An old sailor sat on the dockside, whittling a toy boat.
  • The company transports cargo between the dockside and moored ships.
  • Arriving at the dockside, you are reminded of the sheer bulk of the ship.
  • A pet that appears to be having a heat stroke can be doused with seawater, or sprayed with a dockside hose to cool him off quickly.
  • Not even the six major fires that raged through the city between 1848 and 1851—many of them set by an organized gang of transplanted Australian criminals known as the Sydney Ducks—could slow the explosive urban development, which stretched from the dockside red-light district known as the Barbary Coast to the nouveau riche mansions on 338-foot-high Nob Hill, located above Chinatown and the financial district. LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
  • Rubble and bloodstained corpses were scattered across the dockside, and acrid smoke from burning oil filled the air.
  • The trains will be met by more soldiers at dockside, who will work with longshoremen and contractors to put the tanks on a ship.
  • This tanker rusts by the dockside, a shell, a poetic heap of oxidation and thought.
  • The excellent, shock-haired Lenny sounds a complete prat when he tells Ruth that a dockside doxy was diseased because ‘I decided she was.’
  • Dale eyed the gap between the dockside and the boat warily.
  • I was keen to capitalise on their dockside location.
  • All that day and all the day following, Port Haven was scoured from top to bottom, from the smallest closet to the tiniest dockside dory.
  • The night life of any dockside is as vociferant as the day. Nights in London
  • The boat, of the kind that takes tourists for trips and parties, is moored next to the dockside by the Las Palmas Building.
  • On deck I found the gangplank and made it to the safety of the dockside.
  • While dockside or at anchor, the back of the helm seat may be flipped forward to make a U-shaped settee for entertaining.
  • The Gidbinn will reinforce the enchantments that protect the dockside from the evil that infests Kurast.
  • He turned slowly around the room, getting used to the feel of the boat again, with subtle hum of the engines, and the gentle tug as she moved away from the moorings at dockside.
  • White beaches, standing stones, flowers on the machair, Gaelic psalm-singing (which sounds like no other church music in Europe - a Chinese or Mongolian feel to it) and monstrous alcohol consumption on a Saturday night (an Englishman is best advised to avoid Stornoway dockside bars) followed by a real Sabbath - no shops, taxis, bars - you go for a walk or go to church. Archive 2005-06-26
  • Not even the six major fires that raged through the city between 1848 and 1851—many of them set by an organized gang of transplanted Australian criminals known as the Sydney Ducks—could slow the explosive urban development, which stretched from the dockside red-light district known as the Barbary Coast to the nouveau riche mansions on 338-foot-high Nob Hill, located above Chinatown and the financial district. LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
  • Sardines, however, are glorious enough to imagine enjoying their marinated iridescence dockside with soffrito crudo, and neither rabbit ballotine nor game-bird terrine betray any gaminess.
  • Crowds flocked to the dockside to admire the fine array of classics, which included elegant Triumphs and the rather rugged armed vehicles driven by the 14 Signal Regiment.
  • Manoeuvring the boat into the dockside, for instance, is one time when pleasantries will not be appreciated.
  • It's a dockside tavern---not the sort of place you'd feel comfortable. DEVIL'S BRIDE
  • It was chaos, but an intricately organized chaos, and the first heaps of cargo were already being trundled off to dockside and the broad-beamed, clumsy-looking riverboats awaiting them.
  • Chris Mehlig, a fisherman from Louisiana's St. Bernard Parish, said he is getting eight days of work a month, laying down containment boom, running supplies to other boats or simply being on call dockside in case he is needed. Gulf Oil Spill: Is Clean Up Help Being Turned Down?
  • It is exceedingly difficult to misapprehend discovering my wife in a dockside tavern. DEVIL'S BRIDE
  • Her anchor chains are on trailers at dockside and her huge oil transfer hoses are nowhere to be seen.
  • It is the largest dockside casino in the Shreveport area.
  • There was swing and jive in the dance halls, mambo in the bars, boogie-woogie piano playing in the dockside cathouses. DESPERADOES
  • The tiller can be easily removed to allow more useable space for entertaining while dockside or at anchor.
  • What Triesman suffered was a fishing expedition, in which Jacobs was the trawlerman, the ubiquitous Max Clifford the dockside salesman and the Mail on Sunday the wholesaler. Whose interests are being served by this squalid tale of entrapment?
  • Drug barons operate out of a dockside warehouse, employing some of their fellow countrymen to do the donkey work.
  • Thus, containerized loading commences, in many instances, not at dockside or on board the vessel but at inland points.
  • At the end of the Cold War, Russia was left with nearly 200 nuclear submarines rusting at the dockside.
  • Port managers are working feverishly to prevent a dockside doomsday.
  • The dockside coal depot will be the focal point of a demonstration against imports and pit closures tomorrow.
  • Big ships need deep water and huge docksides, which restricts them to a few heavily touristed ports of call. Times, Sunday Times
  • Arriving at the dockside, you are reminded of the sheer bulk of the ship.
  • After midnight, taking his careful, indirect route home from his dockside rendezvous, he had met two men. COFFIN IN FASHION
  • He scrambled to the dockside once more, colliding with Arif, who was running towards the men fighting near the hut. KARA KUSH
  • All that day and all the day following, Port Haven was scoured from top to bottom, from the smallest closet to the tiniest dockside dory.
  • The cranes on the skyline, together with massive dockside redevelopments, tell an encouraging story.
  • It is a typical dockside area and is unique in retaining its feel.

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