Sentence examples for dock line from inspiring English sources

(Above, boats in a previous race, and, below, a deckhand throwing a dock line).

"The flames ate down into the extensive lumber district, but had not caught the dock line.

With a limberness that defies his 69 years, Frank Mirarchi heaves himself over the edge of a concrete wharf and steps out onto a slack, downward sloping dock line bouncing 20 feet above the lapping waters near Scituate, Mass.

But a lot of it was fishing net floats, fishing nets — old driftnets and new trawl nets — buoys, ship bumpers, and dock lines.

"Instead, the current proposition literally cuts the dock lines attaching 50-plus tax-paying families to this town, and gives them a good kick out into the bay".

And while it's true enough that they evoke hawsers and dock lines, they also appear to allude slyly to rope's deeper symbolic meanings, the kind deployed by conjurers or Masons in their secretive rites.

Remember it ain't over until the fat lady throws the dock lines!

We're in demo mode, and a virtual tour guide whispers in my ear, instructing us to walk between a couple of touristy seafood restaurants and through a door to a quiet dock lined with fishing boats.

No dock lines or fenders are needed.

Remember to always check the sea and weather conditions before your untie your dock lines.

Question: How should a boat approach and leave the fuel dock with the tide, fenders, dock lines?