1241 examples of docked in sentences

You get yourself off to the mill, or you'll be docked for lost time.

If you will only stick to the ship until she is fairly docked, I will promise you a sight of the Isle of Dogs before you land, even.

She was driving a horse that she had got from the hotel in the village, a roan horse that was clipped, and check-reined, and had his tail docked.

How could I enjoy myself with a dumb creature writhing in pain before me? "A docked horse can neither eat nor sleep comfortably in the fly season.

This horse had been clipped, and his tail was docked, and he was turned out to graze.

They've a few flimsy arguments about a horse with a docked tail being stronger-backed, like a short-tailed sheep, but I don't believe a word of it.

They are docked without mercy, or, now and then, when not properly mouth-filling, they are "spliced" with a couple of vowels.

" "What name's he docked under?" "Smith.

The real ships will slip in, be docked and coaled, and slip out again.

incomplete; imperfect &c 651; unfinished; uncompleted &c (complete) &c 729; defective, deficient, wanting, lacking, failing; in default, in arrear^; short of; hollow, meager, lame, halfand-half, perfunctory, sketchy; crude &c (unprepared) 674. mutilated, garbled, docked, lopped, truncated.

Soon after my ship, the Lapland, docked in America, I heard a case of whose verity, owing to the source from which it came, I had no doubt.

The continued straight line of a terrier's back is not desirable, but it will frequently be found in specimens that have been docked.

It is said that a docked dog can be told from one that has been born tailless in this way; when the docked animal is pleased, a slight movement at the end of the spine where the tail was cut off is discernible, but the naturally tailless dog sways the whole of its hind-quarters.

It is said that a docked dog can be told from one that has been born tailless in this way; when the docked animal is pleased, a slight movement at the end of the spine where the tail was cut off is discernible, but the naturally tailless dog sways the whole of its hind-quarters.

TAILShould be docked from five to seven inches, set low, and not carried above the level of the back, thickly clothed with moderately long feather.

The Clipper docked mid-afternoon, and he checked in at his home away from home.

Purchasing a four-in-hand of docked unicorns, and much improved in health, he returned to Rome.

The ship reached New York late in the afternoon, and docked that night.

We can hardly call this a shipwreck, Mr. Mark, though we have been ashore once; it is more like being docked, than anything else!"

Every day or two another ship docked and new workers came in to join the crew.

About two dozen ships were docked on the field, and workers were still hovering around tables in the work center.

Robert had been full of chatter on the way back, but Wulf had responded only with short sentences, and after they had docked they went their separate ways.

He gave up the morning nip, docked the number of cocktails, went to bed before two, took a little gentle exercise, met Mrs. Pat Dearmanand (like Mr. Robin Ross-Ellison, General Miltiades Murger and many another) succumbed at once.

Perhaps, too, my state of inattention brought down impositions upon me, and docked the margin of time necessary for the detour.

There was sorrow in his eyes like the submarine times when he came to tell me no boat docked this morning.

1241 examples of  docked  in sentences