How to Use dockside in a Sentence

dockside

noun
Definition of docksidenext
  • The fish are unloaded at dockside and taken right to the market.
  • The city has moved to end dockside support to cruise ships.
    — Harriet Baskas, NBC News, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The internet chef and the the Bates Motel actress were also seen dockside on the Club 55 Beach.
    — Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 20 July 2023
  • At dockside, spectators were taken by the grandeur of it all.
    — Shirley Burgett, The Mercury News, 3 May 2017
  • Is dinner a quick pick-up from the deli down the block or a luxuriant dockside feast on a breezy late August evening?
    — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Aug. 2022
  • It’s in the countryside. Tell me about the products offered dockside for yacht service??
    — Debbi Kickham, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
  • The main dining room is staged to resemble a weathered dockside joint.
    — Al Pierleoni, sacbee, 18 May 2018
  • Courtesy image Outside are landscaped lawns, a patio with a pool, a lanai, and a dockside firepit.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 16 Apr. 2023
  • For upscale dockside dining, the Pensacola Fish House is your spot.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The August 5 fight stemmed from a dispute over a dockside parking spot at Montgomery’s Riverfront Park between the crew of the riverboat and the owners of a small private boat.
    — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN, 25 Sep. 2023
  • So how did this dockside brawl become what some are calling a watershed moment for race?
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The image from Planet Labs, taken a few hours after the attack, showed a ship dockside with another vessel next to it.
    — Hanna Arhirova and Emma Burrows, Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The 87-acre Riceboro property is by the river and a barge is already waiting dockside with a fireworks for a festive display.
    — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 20 Aug. 2022
  • The lower level, dockside, features a bedroom/office space as well as a laundry and storage.
    — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2019
  • The tinny percussion of punta rock from a dockside bar and shouts of fishermen cleaning their nets gave way to a cottony silence.
    — Julien Capmeil, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Mar. 2020
  • This can be especially important at dockside, where a dog may be anxious about taking the leap aboard.
    — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 22 Nov. 2020
  • Despite the Sullivan being in good shape, however, there's not much hope for even dockside programs this year.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Also in Shima, the rustic Hiogiso is a dockside ryokan with a cypress onsen and tatami-floor guest rooms.
    — Adam H. Graham, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2017
  • Also in Shima, the rustic Hiogiso is a dockside ryokan with a cypress onsen and tatami-floor guest rooms.
    — Adam H. Graham, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2017
  • The dress code at the rapper’s sprawling five-bedroom dockside Miami mansion?
    — Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 12 Sep. 2020
  • Marcela-Daniela Costea, the director of Galati river port, said large amounts of grain had been stored for weeks and even months by traders in dockside silos controlled by outside companies.
    — Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2023
  • From the water, Rowan spied a charming dockside emporium that looked ideal.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2023
  • These four audio clips were found to be of Nate Libby, a dockside worker who later pleaded guilty to making a fraudulent Mayday call.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Serving breakfast and lunch daily, the café offers a cheerful space to dine indoors, but most folks opt to enjoy their meals dockside, shaded by umbrellas and canvas tents.
    — Andrea E. McHugh, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2023
  • At the Caloosa Cove Resort and Marina, concrete pilings meant to hold the dock in place had been knocked sideways, and three manatees lolled in the water, drinking from an outflow pump spitting water from the dockside.
    — Reuters, Fortune, 13 Sep. 2017
  • The disaster funds were distributed based on an area’s fishery value equal to 70.56% of the respective five even year average dockside value.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2020
  • Two people were injured at a Florida dockside restaurant Friday after a portion of the dock collapsed into the water.
    — Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 22 Jan. 2022
  • This two-story restaurant-bar property, with a more casual dockside bar underneath at water level sits on the north shore of Lake San Marcos.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2022
  • The ports said wharf renovations will start in January, with dockside and yard improvements expected to be completed in 2026.
    — J. Scott Trubey, ajc, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Such mismatches help explain why containers destined to travel by rail sit dockside for an average of eight days, up from two before the pandemic.
    — David J. Lynch, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2021

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