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    Use "berth" in a sentence

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    1. Scar entered the dimly lit room, making sure to keep a wide berth around the many people in the room


    2. His wife of twenty years chose the pension and condo in Sao Luis rather than a berth on the Lula and now she was his greatest disappointment, he knew then it had been a one-sided relationship all along


    3. A kayak or needleboat could have gone under the dock and cost a lot less, he had to pay for a yacht berth


    4. They were still hurtling by these bodies at almost two thousand miles per second giving them millions of miles of berth so there was no way they could pick up a sample


    5. He reserved the top berth


    6. ticket this year,' I said as I chained our suitcase to the lower berth


    7. Captain Perry settled the steamship into its berth at the dock on the morning tide, the gang way was set in place and it was Mr


    8. given a wide berth by even the most adventurous and


    9. Harry walked toward them and not knowing his intention, they gave him a wide berth between them to let him pass


    10. N: With that he ran away up the mountain side, and has ever after been careful to give the turtle a wide berth

    11. (berth – go a long way around)


    12. They took a wide berth out of range of the combat,


    13. anyone they encountered a wide berth


    14. the top berth, when, all of a sudden, I heard an explosion


    15. remained in my berth, stiffer than ever, keenly keeping an eye on


    16. berth, this time, with his trunk


    17. and made my way back to the berth


    18. It was open on the berth opposite to


    19. berth above yours is that professors from IIT Delhi…”


    20. “It was struck between the berth and the wall; I saw it just in

    21. “Sir, I was on the berth above yours, sleeping when the


    22. corner of eyes, lying on the top berth


    23. Crew and conscripts alike gave the lumbering devil a wide berth as he passed


    24. Husim gave them a wide berth and leapt up onto the dais


    25. It was a wet Wednesday when the hospital ship docked at its berth at Southampton Docks and the badly wounded were being disembarked on their stretchers


    26. which had been dumped in the berth deck by the Laurel, was finally removed to the side bunkers on the ship until they were


    27. The remaining coal was then moved to the aft berth deck


    28. By now, it was found that there was ample room to berth two hundred men comfortably,


    29. I knew that I would have done a deal with the devil and all his hordes if he could have got me out of this hell but I reckoned that even he would have been frightened by this place and would have given it a wide berth


    30. I noticed that the other people who were still abroad at 10:00 that night gave me a wide berth

    31. They soon saw the sleepy looking Lamganas and they knew they needed to keep to the edge, giving the woods a wide berth


    32. A man remarked that it seemed like heaven to lay his fever-worn frame in a comfortable berth, and to have decent food and treatment after the hardships on land


    33. Garcia's men grew wary of carrying despatches after dark, and gave our lines a wide berth, though starving Negro pacificos hung round the camps in hundreds, and pestered the soldiers, who berated Cubans in general in consequence


    34. Frightened by the noise and stench the monsters made, he gave the track a wide berth, paralleling it at a safe distance


    35. deserted as she slowly rose and fell at her briny berth


    36. Officer Edgar Vargas studied the Coast Guard cutter through binoculars as she glided from her berth and steamed from the harbor


    37. The afternoon sun shone weakly between mountain peaks: the harbor would be in darkness before the barge was secured in its berth


    38. He gave the creature a wide berth and presented his paperwork to the alien being crouched behind the thickly glassed window and its semi-circular cutout with stainless steel brushed-metal tray


    39. Giving them a wide berth usually kept her from having to listen to remarks about her unusual occupation


    40. People give him a wide berth, when they can

    41. They walked very close together and gave the old Bailey garden a wide berth


    42. Michpili was a grizzled, old veteran who had kept to himself during the trip here and whose forbidding aspect caused the rest of us to give him wide berth


    43. We can give it a wide berth by cutting over to the


    44. Then the entire caravan moved off, took a wide berth around the white dissenters


    45. "We'd better give him a wide berth," Austin suggested, herding everyone into the kitchen


    46. Thalia already had Aegis on her arm, and even our own teammates were giving her a wide berth, trying not to cower before the bronze head of Medusa


    47. I joined Kenneth and the three others searching for our reserved couchette compartment, then pretended I was tired and climbed into my berth while the others trolled the corridors for amusement


    48. And if at her hours of tedium she misses my coward love, she just has to call me and next to her I will be, because this incurable love, although out of my scope, prefers suicide in her than in another port to berth


    49. Any passers-by who saw the man of bones gave a wide berth and made straight for home to lock their doors and shutters tight


    50. He would also have to give the Chinese a wide berth for the moment!














































    1. He berthed the thunderboat and began the climb to Ava's latest home, hoping she could find those papers and wouldn't object to giving them over to him


    2. Our first sight of England was the dim lights on the wet harbour wall at Folkestone in the early dawn light as we docked and tied up there was another ship berthed a hospital one and I could see that another ship could have tied up on the harbour wall


    3. Deputies Dumpus and Porge were hanging around the dock where the Calamity was berthed, both dressed in sailor’s garb


    4. A small rusty tug was berthed where his submersible had been moored earlier


    5. After a good lunch, Roger went up to his favorite deck ten to contemplate the beauty of the city and the port, in particular Princess Wharf where the ship was berthed and where eighty percent of New Zealand’s imports and exports are


    6. One reason it was so cheap was the yacht never berthed for more than a few minutes, and never overnight – that’s when high charges accrue


    7. Rory berthed the speedboat on the beach well away from, and out of sight of Wei’s boathouse and cottage and then led the party to where he had concealed his car


    8. condemning them even before their actions are even berthed!


    9. On 5th April 1941 during an RAF raid on Brest where the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were based, an unexploded bomb landed in the dry dock where Gneisenau was berthed


    10. These two awesome capital ships were now berthed in the dry dock for maintenance

    11. with the other two people was the Zárate naval base since she lived a block and a half away, and from the way the boat berthed


    12. Securely berthed, a gantry crane moved


    13. Liners from around the world berthed alongside and tourists lost themselves for days, filling bags with intricately embroidered jackets, antiques, I-Love-HK T-shirts, ivory carvings, wooden and soapstone statues, and hi-fis and cameras that they would learn on their return home were really no cheaper and in some cases were more expensive than elsewhere in Hong Kong


    14. heavy heart and an absent mind that I made my way to where the Iona was berthed


    15. Iona as she berthed, but later during the day I presented myself to Rory and asked if his


    1. One technician handed oxygen masks connected to portable oxygen bottles to Murrow and his cameraman, then put one on himself before leading Ingrid inside the airlock leading to the space plane berthing compartment


    1. Ali beta,' don't jump between berths, Ali


    2. Nerissa didn’t dare try to buy berths from anyone but Psatos


    3. Twenty-two hours, and nine Naud ships later, the Lorien and Lúthien returned to their berths aboard the Huntress


    4. “Well maybe, we could improve your letter by sleeping in the car tonight and tomorrow, nose around Limon harbor until we find where the Caroline berths, then leave tomorrow night instead


    5. walls or sitting on the berths, making a space in the centre of the


    6. bounced off of the berths and against the tight walls that seemed


    7. They rode off to the east on this path which leads to the coast where they can pick up berths on any number of ships,” the captain offered


    8. No room for a hip bath but then, it was a palace compared to the berths the midshipmen and third class slept in


    9. Others had sleeping berths, dining cars and even privies


    10. ‘’No way! These…new passengers will have to find berths in the bow section

    11. ‘’They may be reserved for cryogenic berths for the crew, Tina


    12. Such berths would need minimal power to stay functional, especially with the freezing temperatures on those levels


    13. They took separate berths


    14. It should be realized that those mandatory ministerial berths and the quota of secretaries would only help buttress their communal self-worth


    15. ‘Do check below the berths before all else


    16. The limo pulled up at one of the berths


    17. All of my people could have fit into the empty berths of the bar-Kregridor, but to my surprise they asked to be spread out among the entire fleet


    18. The water was as smooth as in any dock; one ship was motionless, the other just moving at what may be called dock-speed when entering, leaving, or shifting berths; and from the moment the collision was seen to be unavoidable till the actual contact a whole minute elapsed


    19. As to the sailors of the Pharaon, they must have found snug berths elsewhere, for they also had disappeared


    20. California, on the other hand, could become only the second school ever to win the varsity race four years in a row, as well as the first to ever go on to win three consecutive Olympic berths

    21. It was one of those snug, lucrative berths of which there are so many more nowadays than there used to be, with incomes ranging from one thousand to fifty thousand roubles


    22. Outwardly, our Fortunes had improv’d; the Captain’s Cabin was provided with Windows, Light, Air, a Writing Bureau, and dry Berths lin’d with Eider-Downs, as well as Plate and Pewter bearing his Family Crest


    23. The saloons and staterooms were in the extreme after part of the vessel, but the stateroom of that day was little more than a closet, with two berths, one above the other, and very little standing room between these and the wall


    24. They talked of the Caucasus, of the nature of true passion, of snug berths in the service, of the income of an hussar called Podharzhevsky, whom none of them knew personally, and rejoiced in the largeness of it, of the extraordinary grace and beauty of a Princess D


    25. Entering the first room in that building they found the prisoners stretched on their berths, which occupied the middle of the room


    26. Hearing the visitors enter they all jumped down, and, clinking their chains, placed themselves beside their berths, while their half-shaven heads were distinctly set off against the gloom of the prison


    27. A small lamp, fastened to the wall, lit up the four bodies which were stretched on berths, with their heads toward the wall and the feet protruding toward the door


    28. I cannot consent, in deference to any gentlemen, however great their zeal, to admit that I merely urged them at that time, from party views, to put down one description of persons in order to get into their warm berths


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    Synonyms for "berth"

    berth billet office place position post situation spot built in bed bunk moorage mooring slip moor wharf tie up bed couch cot

    "berth" definitions

    a job in an organization


    a place where a craft can be made fast


    a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers


    provide with a berth


    secure in or as if in a berth or dock


    come into or dock at a wharf