How to Use depot in a Sentence

depot

noun
  • The rockets have been stored at the depot since the 1940s.
    — CBS News, 7 July 2023
  • The house, the milk depot and the school have all been torn down.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The driver, who was at the start of his shift, pulled his bus out of a depot.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2020
  • On May 20th, a sunny day, Volodymyr rode his bike to the depot, and drove a tram out.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Their name was affixed to the Boas Hotel, which sat in front of the tracks near the depot.
    — Ray Hanley, arkansasonline.com, 3 Feb. 2025
  • The land where the museum was to be built is owned by the city by the railroad depot in Old Town.
    — Paul Wedding, Houston Chronicle, 4 Aug. 2020
  • The Rosneft depot is about 21 miles from the Ukraine border.
    — Yuras Karmanau, chicagotribune.com, 1 Apr. 2022
  • At last, the robot parked in front of a Cainiao depot in a far corner of campus.
    — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Tickets are $6 and can be purchased at the train depot.
    — Nicole Cobler, Axios, 9 Dec. 2024
  • The train was headed downtown to the Union Station depot.
    — Graydon Megan, Chicago Tribune, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Donley’s purview skews toward the macros — the trunks, the trucks, the carriage of cargo across a network of crews and depots.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The ride starts at a depot on Front Street and ends right behind it in Mallory Square.
    — Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Plains has a train depot, a general store that sells peanut ice cream, and not much else.
    — Washington Post, 10 July 2021
  • Smoke plumes rise from a fuel depot in Odessa that was hit by Russian forces in April.
    — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Now, the rover is setting up a depot of samples that will be stored on the Martian surface.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 27 Dec. 2022
  • This small timber town was home to the large Union train depot; surprising for such a small town.
    — Ray Hanley, arkansasonline.com, 17 Dec. 2024
  • And this was the scene in the south, Russia again turning its guns onto Ukrainian grain depots and ports.
    — ABC News, 6 Aug. 2023
  • Their white colleagues, who were often drivers, showered at the depot at the end of their shifts.
    — Kurtis Lee, New York Times, 23 Nov. 2023
  • There are 13 depots across the county that act as transfer hubs for students.
    — The Courier-Journal, 21 Aug. 2023
  • The depot is also off-limits to people who do not work there.
    — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Dec. 2020
  • The depot is near the base of an ancient river delta that once flowed into Jezero Lake.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The depot, built in 1910, now houses state offices and archives.
    — Matt Canham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Where the Union Hotel now stands was once a train depot where the land auction that founded Las Vegas took place in 1905.
    — Luke Burbank, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2024
  • But in 2020, one of them was due for some major depot-level maintenance and a fresh coat of paint.
    — Eric Tegler, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2021
  • The city of Hope in Hempstead County is home to another fine depot.
    — Tom Dillard, Arkansas Online, 11 Oct. 2020
  • When that happens, workers have to swap in a fresh battery and bring the dead ones to outer-borough depots for juice.
    — John Surico, Curbed, 24 July 2023
  • Special cars were waiting to pick up guests at the Cotton Belt train depot at Akard and Lamar and ferry them to the party.
    — Meagan Hurley, Dallas News, 5 Aug. 2020
  • The city wanted to raze much of what remained of Greenwood to build a train depot and move the area’s residents north, but a lawsuit stopped the plan.
    — NBC News, 26 May 2021
  • At the single-story depot, money from clients was trucked in, counted and sent out.
    — Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Reina-Campos is wondering whether T cells could use their own epigenome as a metabolic depot to fuel their functions.
    — Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Jan. 2025

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