How to Use dory in a Sentence

dory

noun

• Our hero, heart pumping, has been pulling his dory through the water.
  — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2020
• Now a relic, dories were for centuries the workhorses of the fishing fleets.
  — Billy Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2019
• Only a few outfitters are licensed to operate dories on the river.
  — Joe Yogerst, National Geographic, 15 Mar. 2019
• Fishermen pulled their dories up on land and hung up their nets and lines while their home islands floated on a veritable sea of whiskey, wine, and money.
  — Marc Wortman, Smithsonian, 17 Jan. 2018
• On my cousin’s sixteenth birthday, my uncle loaded too many of us into an open dory with a weak engine and a pitiful dinghy towed behind.
  — The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2022
• He and his dory were overlooked and forgotten by the mothership in a fog leaving him and a compatriot at sea five days from land.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
• Spectators will see a variety of floats, and dory boats decorated in creative ways.
  — oregonlive, 12 July 2023
• Decor items include historic artifacts like the oars and tiller from a dory used in shipwreck rescues and various lanterns on loan from the Coast Guard.
  — Arielle Dollinger, House Beautiful, 3 June 2021
• Sea kayaks, canoes, skiffs, powerboats, inner tubes, water skis, dories and dinghies lean against buildings and sit in driveways along Highway 169.
  — Porter Fox, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2016
• Rivers dammed into reservoirs were surrounded by campers, motorcycles and recreational vehicles, and filled with fishing dories, speed boats and swimming families.
  — Bruce Berger, WSJ, 12 July 2019
• Over the years, Lowell’s boats have included the famed Grand Banks dory, the legendary small boat that became a mainstay on commercial fishing schooners from nearby Gloucester and far beyond.
  — Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2019
• French and Portuguese otter trawlers began to work the Grand Banks, while Newfoundlanders continued to fish inshore in traditional ways (although many now had motors on their dories).
  — Robert Kunzig, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
• In the nineteenth century the American, French, and Portuguese bankers began to fish from dories, fanning out from their schooner at dawn, or what passed for dawn in the perpetual fog on the banks, and coming back with a boatload of fish.
  — Robert Kunzig, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
• Saline 20 is home to Les Zigotos, a group of volunteers dedicated to preserving the culture and history of the dory, Saint-Pierre’s traditional wooden boat.
  — Hillary Richards, Travel + Leisure, 28 June 2023
• So far, bigeye armoreye dories have only been found around Dongsha Island, also known as Pratas Island, a small island in the South China Sea roughly 260 miles southwest of mainland Taiwan.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025