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    Use "quay" in a sentence

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    quay


    1. As they drifted to a stop in an indoor quay, he was interrupted by arguing with the docking attendant about who was going to park the boat


    2. the watching grey head off the quay,


    3. The café is situated on one side of a small square and, from where I am sitting, I can see the masts of boats bobbing at the quay just down the street; the tang of salt in the air is tantalising


    4. Drens’ boat is a smart-looking vessel tied up at the end of the quay, a gangplank bouncing lightly on the stones of the quay as the water in the harbour takes the boat up and down


    5. A small crowd of children and idle onlookers has gathered on the quay to watch the boat as it prepares to sail; I scan their faces wondering if any of them know who I am, half looking for the men who chased me through the streets of Ercolano


    6. ‘Which one is it?’ I asked, as he takes Adamant, and walks off, Sefir and I following on his heels, trying not to lose him in the crowd on the quay


    7. As we draw level with the barge in question, I see a man about to untie the ropes holding the gangplank to the quay


    8. That, and in the mechanics of unloading big crates onto the quay in forecasted squalls


    9. On the old quay, but it's not really your sort of place


    10. O'Hare's on the quay has live music

    11. It was old and sturdy and even had a gated quay


    12. Alex Berisa parks his hire car in Bideford’s main car park at the far end of the quay, by a park filled with hassled parents watching kids on bikes and swings


    13. According to the directions given to him by one of the cashiers at the petrol station at the services where is staying he has to hang a left along the old quay and then follow the signs to the hospital


    14. He drives along the quay and swings up past the Seven Bretheren retail park, up the hill opposite the new bypass and on towards Roundswell


    15. The dock-man pointed at a side quay while Jorma pulled up


    16. This cheered us up and we were still laughing when we marched off down the quay there were few locals around here but there were certainly plenty of British and Empire soldiers around


    17. We marched through the town making for the railway station and marshalling yards I had no idea why we did this as trains could pull up right on the quay


    18. Friday night and booked in at the Old Quay House Hotel in the


    19. Piers was worried because he’d seen Lyra getting into a boat with Troy and some others down at the quay


    20. “There’s a metal boat farther down the quay, “he said

    21. We finally left the Basilica after midday and crossed the square in front of the doge’s palace to the quay


    22. The river was quite broad here and there were many ships of all sizes tied up at the quay


    23. We tied up at the extensive river front quay, and the emperor sent his secretary to find us a ship heading upstream toward Baden


    24. Joseph, the secretary, was soon back, and he led us down along the quay to a boat smaller than the emperor’s, but it appeared to be in good shape


    25. persist in getting to Circular Quay, get on one of the numerous excursion ferries that frequently sail to navigate its inlets


    26. He put his hand on the Nung inter�preter, Vong Man Quay


    27. As the party approached the LZ, Wolf got Vong Man Quay, the Nung he left in charge, to acknowledge they were in�bound and would not shoot


    28. While the others stayed for roulette, I returned to the quay, found a private spot between luxury yachts, stripped, dived in for a swim, then lay in the sun


    29. of tonkangs, boats and the quay side, reflected in the water like


    30. Excusing herself with the major and with the captain of the MEIGS , Ingrid ran down the gangplank and along the quay to Reading’s jeep, jumping in it and explaining to the corporal driving it what she wanted to do

    31. By then, five of the seven reassembled P-40s were already on the quay and were being hooked with A-frame towing bars to light trucks


    32. Selecting her five most experienced pilots on top of Paul Gunn to pilot the fighters that would take off from downtown, she then went back down on the quay and jumped in the cockpit of her P-40F, painted in her trademark gray camouflage scheme and with the words ‘LADY HAWK’ and 29 small Japanese flags painted on each side of the nose


    33. Quay of the harbor of Lungaville , Espiritu Santo


    34. We could have lunch down at the Quay and then we could go to the surgery


    35. Half an hour later, down on the wharf at Circular Quay


    36. He drove her to the harbour where they walked the promenade from Lady Macquarie’s Chair, past the Botanic Gardens and the Opera House to Circular Quay


    37. He stepped across the road into the steel and stone architecture of Circular Quay, already busy with machinelike activity


    38. The ferry glided out of Circular Quay, passing through the cool shadow of the Opera House, whose billowing sails were silhouetted in the orange glow of the sunrise


    39. The noise emanating from the Circular Quay complex slowly faded away into the distance as they rounded the Opera House forecourt and glided out into the expansive harbour


    40. the Quay standing out on the deck of the ferry

    41. There were millions of tourists everywhere and the Quay


    42. Later, as we skated towards the Quay, she said that she still couldn’t work


    43. It was extremely crowded at Circular Quay and we had to skate very slowly,


    44. ����������� One of the papers falling from the sky was picked up on the quay by a submariner, who then ran to bring it to his commander


    45. ����������� Its catamaran hull lifting nearly completely out of the water as air pressure built up between its bow and stern rubber skirts, the FLYING FISH soon moved away from the quay, propelled by its three shrouded contra-rotating propellers


    46. Prien nodded his head, then looked towards the quay, where a big black sedan car and four men in civilian clothes were waiting


    47. ����������� As soon as the walkway between the quay and the submarine was in place, the four civilian men walked on board and stopped in front of Prien, who was shielding Nancy from them


    48. ‘’Damn, another night shot to hell!’’ Muttered FBI Special Agent Jeff Blumenthal, as he watched with other FBI agents the giant yacht approach slowly the quay, escorted by a Coast Guard cutter that was actually dwarfed by its charge


    49. Our surface presence is no more than a floating quay, where 40 ships take up the gas from 160 cylinders at a time


    50. Rudolph and Evans between them represented more than fifty years of service to the police force yet with the evidence gathered before them on this ninth day following the atrocity in Quay Street, each man was enthralled














































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    Synonyms for "quay"

    quay marina wharf dock harbour jetty

    "quay" definitions

    wharf usually built parallel to the shoreline