boatyard

Example Sentences

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A psychologist from Brazil who has been missing in Essex may have taken a boat from a boatyard, police investigating her disappearance have said.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

The distraught family of a 21-year-old woman found dead in a boatyard have said she will be greatly missed.

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2025

The investigation determined that the fire began inside a building at the boatyard where a worker had been replacing a boat’s gas tank.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 23, 2022

Aerial video taken by WCVB-TV showed several boats and vehicles at the boatyard in Mattapoisett either burned out shells or being consumed by flames.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 19, 2022

The area was half-gentrified now, but it still held old corners and dark alleys, an abandoned burial ground and a church with an Italianate campanile standing guard over the boatyard and the chandlery.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman