Sentence examples for edge of a dock from inspiring English sources

A PAIR of boats are anchored just past the edge of a dock that juts out from Cité Soleil, a vast slum in Haiti's capital.

But there are no New York State laws preventing disposal of human ashes in the Great South Bay or even from the edge of a dock.

What happens here, in this warmly lit, perfectly cast version of the States, is this: a towheaded boy with angles for ribs runs down to the edge of a dock, takes flight, and folds himself into a ball before he breaks the glinting surface of a lake.

Tang Xiaohe's nearly 6-by-10-foot canvas "Strive Forward in Wind and Tides" (1971) is an almost comically heroic vision of Mao in a white bathrobe, posing with a group of soldiers in short pants and a boy in a bathing suit at the edge of a dock on a blustery day.

Is the victim near the edge of a pool, pier or dock?

Far below the edge of a cavernous dry dock, hundreds of workers in orange jumpsuits and hard hats labored in a forest of steel reinforcing bars, laying the gray concrete bases for two gas- and oil-producing platforms that will soon rise 20 stories.

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.

When the stick finally surfaced, the group of swimmers teetering on the edge of the dock dived for it in a splashing struggle of a race.

— Kneeling at the edge of the dock, Wen Baldwin began hauling on a length of nylon rope that disappeared into the depths of Lake Mead.

I remember when the Paralympics finished, it was a bit like standing at the edge of the dock, watching the sun set and thinking, "Bugger, what am I going to do now?" The Games were absolutely phenomenal, the time of our lives and, frankly, it went better than any of us could ever have hoped.

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