Sentence examples for used shore from inspiring English sources

"I used shore excursions and other activities as an excuse not to.

We tested how this might affect animal behaviours using shore crabs.

However, some ships are equipped to use "shore power", drawing electricity from land-based power plants.

We are pushing for them to use shore power but they have resisted".

Some ports on the West Coast, from Alaska to California, have been using shore power for nearly a decade.

According to the Port Authority, ships berthed in the Port of New York and using shore power at the Power Authority's present rates would be paying four times the average cost of using their own oil-fueled generators.

Citing CLIA's letter to Keever, she writes: "To use shore power as a metric is highly misleading because shore power facilities with the capacity to supply cruise vessels are unavailable at the vast majority of ports where cruise ships call".

(Four Princess ships and one Holland America ship will use shore power in Vancouver during the remainder of the 2009 Alaska cruise season, which ends this month).Port Metro Vancouver estimates that each cruise ship that docks in Vancouver contributes $2 million Canadian to the local economy.

Hardness of each composition was obtained using Shore A Durometer tester as per ASTM D 2240-97.

China Shipping has said many of the vessels using its terminal also were not equipped to use shore power.

Port Executive Director Gene Seroka, a former shipping executive appointed in 2014, has said construction work at the port and last year's labor trouble kept many TraPac ships from using shore power.