Sentence examples for a vast yard from inspiring English sources
At the Mughalpura rail complex — a vast yard of workshops and train sheds stretched across 360 acres with 12,000 employees — workers were operating at 40 percent capacity, managers complained.
Around 4,000 carriages are emptied in Tubarão each day.The unloaded ore is blended and stockpiled in a vast yard enclosed by fine-mesh screens to stop the dust from blowing towards the nearby city of Vitória.
All of which may explain the shock of coming around a bend and suddenly finding a derrick illuminated at night, or a gas flare framed by stars, or dozens of neatly ranked trailers in a "man camp," or a vast yard of drill pipe, or a herd of water trucks, or tracts of almost-finished single-family homes with Tyvek paper flapping in the wind of what just yesterday was a wheat field.
After going through prison security, and waiting for hours because of a last-minute appeal to the Arizona supreme court, prison staff escorted us – just a handful of witnesses – across the vast yard and into the small place where a killer was about to be killed.
There is a vast freight yard there.
It had a vast front yard and a garden across the street.
At flood tide, clear ocean water surges into the bay, and then the water suddenly becomes transparent as air, and suddenly they find themselves flying over a vast junk yard that extends as far as the eye can see.
In the decades that followed, the vast yards shifted from steamers to oil tankers, container ships, liquified natural gas carriers and, most recently, modern cruise liners like the Queen Mary 2 and the Norwegian Epic.
It was a vast monument 480 yards (440 metres) long and 140 yards (130 metres) wide, approached by a 200-yard (180-metre) causeway raised on pillars.
The Govan Graving Docks were once a vast ship repair yard, with three dry docks with connecting quays and walkways.
As I stepped out onto it, my awareness of space expanded enormously: our vagon was sitting by itself in a vast, irregularly lighted train yard.
