Wondering how to use Dockyard in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as waterfront.
Dockyard meaning
A place where ships are repaired or outfitted.
Synonyms of Dockyard
Using Dockyard
- The main meaning on this page is: A place where ships are repaired or outfitted.
- Useful related words include: waterfront.
- In the example corpus, dockyard often appears in combinations such as: the dockyard, dockyard in, naval dockyard.
Context around Dockyard
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 12 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dockyard
- In this selection, "dockyard" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, historic, naval, royal, closed, actually and session stand out and add context to how "dockyard" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a royal dockyard by queen and a working dockyard said we. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dockyard" sits close to words such as abingdon, abrahams and abuzz, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dockyard
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
So he left the dockyard. (5 words)
Dockyard Road will be renamed Mazgaon. (6 words)
Pupils go on trips, such as Portsmouth’s historic dockyard. (10 words)
After Chatham Dockyard closed 40 years ago with the loss of 8,000 jobs the government threw money at the peninsula situated on the River Medway to bring new life to the devastated area. (34 words)
The fire was brought under control by the ship’s crew with the assistance of firefighters from the Naval Dockyard, Mumbai ND (Mbi), and other ships in harbour, by the morning of July 22. (34 words)
INS Sandhayak, the first of four Survey Vessel Large (SVL) ships, was commissioned into the Indian Navy on Saturday at the Naval Dockyard in Visakhapatnam, in the presence of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
It was established as a Royal Dockyard by Queen Elizabeth I in 1568 and most of the dockyard actually lies within Gillingham.
All work from the Dockyard session will be on display at the Bermuda Arts Centre.
Outside of football, George worked at Rosyth Dockyard and at Elliots, in Cowdenbeath, before taking a job with Securicor.
People travel all the way to dockyard with their kids for fun, they will drive st davids.
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard’s National Museum Royal Navy interviewed Frank Clements for their oral history archive.
Since the dockyard closed in 1984, the three-storey property has undergone some refurbishment and has been used by various companies for office space.
After Chatham Dockyard closed 40 years ago with the loss of 8,000 jobs the government threw money at the peninsula situated on the River Medway to bring new life to the devastated area.
An artist's impression of how the Doyle Shipping Group's dockyard in Cork Harbour could be used as a major hub for the delivery and assembly of offshore wind turbines.
A spokesman said: "Our Control Rooms is receiving a large number of calls about a fire in Sheerness Dockyard, Kent which can be seen from Essex.
Dockyard Road will be renamed Mazgaon.
INS Sandhayak, the first of four Survey Vessel Large (SVL) ships, was commissioned into the Indian Navy on Saturday at the Naval Dockyard in Visakhapatnam, in the presence of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.
It is the second most popular food market in Scotland, behind The Dockyard Social in Glasgow which came seventh on the list.
Jenny, who lives above the museum, thinks the reputation problems began when the Dockyard closed in 1960.
Now that story makes me want to take the ferry to Dockyard.
Phil Taylor, a former chief executive of ArcelorMittal Kent Wire and member of the campaign to keep the site as a working dockyard, said: “We’re hugely disappointed, but it wasn’t unexpected.
Pupils go on trips, such as Portsmouth’s historic dockyard.
So he left the dockyard.
The city was strategically situated along the coast and had a dockyard, suggesting that it was a major hub for maritime trade.
The fire was brought under control by the ship’s crew with the assistance of firefighters from the Naval Dockyard, Mumbai ND (Mbi), and other ships in harbour, by the morning of July 22.
Call The Midwife Official Location Tours take place at The Historic Dockyard Chatham in Kent on selected dates between 4 March and 31 October 2020.
Common combinations with dockyard
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: