Examples of depot in a Sentence
a distribution depot for auto parts
the guns and ammunition were stored in a depot in Concord
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Upon our return to downtown Durango and the train depot, everyone filed into the adjacent railroad museum where Santa took time with each child to hear Christmas wishes and take photos.
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Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 11 Dec. 2025
The latest attacks follow a series of strikes in late November and early December on Russian oil depots and refineries in Voronezh, Tambov, Slavyansk, Afipsky, and Novokuybyshevsk, underscoring Kyiv’s strategy of targeting energy infrastructure to weaken Moscow’s war effort.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025
The show could have montaged its way to a shorter version of the sequence where Carol lugs heavy stone tiles from a home-building depot to her house and places them one by one over the grave site.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2025
As convicts were sent to the new Cummins and Tucker prison farms, the penitentiary mostly served as a receiving depot where convicts were initially processed.
—Arkansas Online, 22 Nov. 2025
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Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 11 Dec. 2025
The latest attacks follow a series of strikes in late November and early December on Russian oil depots and refineries in Voronezh, Tambov, Slavyansk, Afipsky, and Novokuybyshevsk, underscoring Kyiv’s strategy of targeting energy infrastructure to weaken Moscow’s war effort.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025
The show could have montaged its way to a shorter version of the sequence where Carol lugs heavy stone tiles from a home-building depot to her house and places them one by one over the grave site.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2025
As convicts were sent to the new Cummins and Tucker prison farms, the penitentiary mostly served as a receiving depot where convicts were initially processed.
—Arkansas Online, 22 Nov. 2025
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“Depot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/depot. Accessed 13 Dec. 2025.
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1
: a place of deposit for goods : storehouse
2
: a place where military supplies are kept or where troops are assembled and trained
3
: a building for railroad or bus passengers or freight : station
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