How to Use dory in a Sentence

dory

noun
  • Now a relic, dories were for centuries the workhorses of the fishing fleets.
    — Billy Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2019
  • The team harnessed El Niño flows to rip through the canyon on a wooden dory named the Emerald Mile in 36:38.
    — Ula Chrobak, Outside Online, 24 May 2018
  • Our hero, heart pumping, has been pulling his dory through the water.
    — Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Only a few outfitters are licensed to operate dories on the river.
    — Joe Yogerst, National Geographic, 15 Mar. 2019
  • Hickman even brings his old dory to complete the experience.
    — Emily Toomey, Smithsonian, 23 July 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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