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Li had worked as a painter and sandblaster at the Staten Island dockyard for roughly four years.—Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 27 May 2026 Today, Phantom is being tested in factories and dockyards from Atlanta to Singapore.—Charlie Campbell, Time, 10 Mar. 2026 The dockyard justifies this by offering 12 months of admission, but for most tourists that promise has limited practical value.—David Nikel, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026 President Donald Trump said US forces carried out a strike on a dockyard in Venezuela allegedly used by drug traffickers, the first attack against the Latin American country’s mainland.—Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 30 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dockyard