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shipyard

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as in marina

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Recent Examples of shipyard The sky was still streaked with sunrise one recent morning when Senator Susan Collins arrived at Bath Iron Works, a naval shipyard in Midcoast Maine. — Emma Green, New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2026 Expanding shipyard capacity without sustaining the suppliers is unlikely to deliver the fleet the nation needs. — George Whittier, Forbes.com, 23 Sep. 2026 The artwork will be presented outdoors at Tersane Istanbul, the historic Ottoman shipyard on the Golden Horn, as one of the fair’s special projects. — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2026 Construction on the ship will continue at the shipyard’s outfitting pier before the vessel ventures out for sea trials. — Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for shipyard

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The yacht was supposed to cross the Panama Canal before picking up Machado and the others at a marina in Colón, on Panama’s Caribbean coast.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2026
In Surf City, New Jersey, water rose inside a marina where workers had moved equipment to higher ground, and owner Kenny Formica said customers reported boats and Jet Skis missing or blown from their lifts.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026

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When the 12-hour dockyard shifts were reduced to 10-hour, workers felt their already precarious standards of living threatened.

— Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 24 Aug. 2026
The reason for its enduring success lies in the geography of English Harbour, where the dockyard was built.

— Duncan Madden, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026

Definition of dockyard

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Blue Harvest has charged captains and crew on its vessels for maintenance, electronics and wharfage fees, among other expenses.

— Will Sennott, ProPublica, 22 July 2022
Stimpson said last year that cruising, before the pandemic halted the industry, attracted around $6 million in annual gross revenues from wharfage and parking alone.

— al, al, 25 Feb. 2022

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