How to Use depot in a Sentence

depot

noun
  • The rockets have been stored at the depot since the 1940s.
    CBS News, 7 July 2023
  • The house, the milk depot and the school have all been torn down.
    Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Nov. 2022
  • On May 20th, a sunny day, Volodymyr rode his bike to the depot, and drove a tram out.
    Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The train was headed downtown to the Union Station depot.
    Graydon Megan, Chicago Tribune, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Donley’s purview skews toward the macros — the trunks, the trucks, the carriage of cargo across a network of crews and depots.
    Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The ride starts at a depot on Front Street and ends right behind it in Mallory Square.
    Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Smoke plumes rise from a fuel depot in Odessa that was hit by Russian forces in April.
    Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Now, the rover is setting up a depot of samples that will be stored on the Martian surface.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 27 Dec. 2022
  • And this was the scene in the south, Russia again turning its guns onto Ukrainian grain depots and ports.
    ABC News, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Their white colleagues, who were often drivers, showered at the depot at the end of their shifts.
    Kurtis Lee, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2023
  • There are 13 depots across the county that act as transfer hubs for students.
    The Courier-Journal, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The depot is near the base of an ancient river delta that once flowed into Jezero Lake.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Where the Union Hotel now stands was once a train depot where the land auction that founded Las Vegas took place in 1905.
    Luke Burbank, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2024
  • When that happens, workers have to swap in a fresh battery and bring the dead ones to outer-borough depots for juice.
    John Surico, Curbed, 24 July 2023
  • The huge museum building, built in 1933 and financed by public subscription, is at the east end of the park near the street car depot.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Instead, he was caught in an FBI sting in 1999 and convicted of trying to rob an armored car depot.
    Shelley Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Across from where Yasamura sat under the depot's roof, a large American flag had been laid on a table.
    Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 5 May 2023
  • The locomotive and coal car that used to steam by the depot is on public display in a nearby Sportsman's Park.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Some have been able to reach targets in Moscow, while others have damaged Russian oil depots along the Black Sea.
    Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
  • And this time, those depots and command centers might have to relocate all the way to Russian soil to escape the Storm Shadow’s reach.
    Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 12 May 2023
  • While freight trains still pass through town daily, the long-defunct train depot buildings now house art galleries and a picturesque Airbnb.
    Hope Hodge Seck, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The pair owns the portion of the lot immediately west, which includes the former train depot and freight buildings.
    Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 30 Aug. 2023
  • But the effort to transform Taiwan into a weapons depot faces challenges.
    John Ismay, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The Perseverance rover is about to build the first depot of rock and soil samples on another planet.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Dec. 2022
  • One of the drones struck an oil depot in Oryol region, causing a fire that the governor there said had been extinguished.
    Christian Edwards, CNN, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Fires in Greece caused wartime-scale airlifts of tourists and ammunition depots to explode.
    Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 29 July 2023
  • The new distribution depot north of Fort Worth will employ about 200 workers.
    Steve Brown, Dallas News, 10 May 2023
  • After the fire, the railroad replaced the passenger depot with a repurposed house opposite the tracks on High Street.
    Frank Batavick, Baltimore Sun, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Eight buses were a part of the second transfer window and one of those showed to the depot 30 minutes late, while another had students who were at the wrong depot.
    The Courier-Journal, 21 Aug. 2023
  • In Makiivka, which is under Russian control, an oil depot was hit and caught fire.
    John Leicester, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2022

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