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Example sentences for "berthing"

Lexicographically close words:
berserkers; berserks; bersetzt; berth; berthed; berths; beruffled; bery; beryed; beryllium
  1. The berthing made to fit into a vessel's gangway on either side.

  2. The rising or working up of the planks of a ship's sides; as berthing up a bulk-head, or bringing up in general.

  3. He belongs to the Board of Health; he controls the entries and departures, the berthing at the anchorage, and general marine duties, but possesses no naval authority.

  4. The berthing or close-boarding between the head-rails.

  5. A short deck forward above the upper deck, mostly used as a galley, but in some merchantmen a berthing place for their crews, though generally very wet and uncomfortable for want of a few necessary fittings.

  6. The staircase, porch, or berthing of the ladder-way to the cabin.

  7. In order to obtain berthing facilities for trans-Atlantic ships it was necessary to build a dock more than a mile long out to deep water.

  8. We all realised the difficulty of berthing the storming vessels at exactly the desired position alongside the Mole and endeavoured to make the storming plan as elastic as possible.

  9. For instance, there were no bollards, no cranes, no capstans for working hawsers, in fact no arrangements whatever for berthing a ship.

  10. But this fact had not been accidentally overlooked by the designer of the Mole; there was no object in taking it into consideration, for there was then no idea of any vessel berthing alongside the outer wall.

  11. Nor was the steward's frequent physical separation based on race; berthing was arranged by department and function aboard large vessels.

  12. Separate berthing for stewards, always justified on the grounds of different duties and hours, was discontinued, and the amount of time spent by stewards at sea, with the varied military work that sea duty involved, was increased.

  13. It was moored just at the entrance to the dock or mole, and was in charge of an official who regulated the berthing of vessels.

  14. You're going to prevent that cruiser from berthing and I won't be able to interfere.

  15. Keeping that cruiser from berthing won't be easy.


  16. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "berthing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.