How to Use quay in a Sentence

quay

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  • The garbage trucks rumble along the quays picking up the refuse from the revelry the night before.
    — Elaine Sciolino, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Leisure boats are moored along the quay of the Yonne River, which is lined with three-star hotels and open-air brasseries.
    — Hugh Garvey, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Mar. 2018
  • When a sea breeze carries the scent of this huddled mass ashore, the Red Cross workers on the quay recoil.
    — Alex Perry, Newsweek, 10 June 2015
  • The memorial is being built at the quay from which ferries leave to Utøya.
    — David Nikel, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Within days thousands of people were stuck on the quay, seeking a way out.
    — Lisa Morrow, CNN, 4 Oct. 2022
  • DP World brought in modern cargo equipment to the port at Berbera and plans to start extending the quay this month.
    — Matina Stevis-Gridneff, WSJ, 1 June 2018
  • The quay is owned by the Labor party's youth wing, which also owns the island itself.
    — David Nikel, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Tomoaki Saito is carrying crates from his 20-foot shrimp boat to a small, white truck parked on the quay.
    — Gavin Blair, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Even with a quay filled with all kinds of new dayboats from the world’s top builders, the the 40’s exterior aesthetics just popped.
    — Kevin Koenig, Robb Report, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Old men fished along its quays despite the rattle of German machine guns.
    — Bruce Dale, National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
  • A small boat with half a dozen people passed by below the quays, with an anarchist flag fluttering in the breeze.
    — Jenny Witt, USA TODAY, 6 July 2017
  • The new berth will be constructed in two phases, with the first two of the four quay cranes to be installed there scheduled for delivery in 2025.
    — Jonathan Burgos, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
  • On weekends—the restaurant weekend is Sunday and Monday—Eugénie runs, and meets a boxing instructor to hook and jab on the quays of the Seine.
    — Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 14 Nov. 2023
  • As soon the gantry quay cranes were removed from the tariff list, another equally important group was left to wallow in the mud.
    — Rick Helfenbein, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
  • There have been songs written about La Seine, movies set alongside her quays, and masterpieces painted about her.
    — Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Water lapped the underside of historic bridges and engulfed cobblestone quays, where tree tops and lampposts now poke out of the brown, swirling Seine.
    — Oleg Cetinic, The Seattle Times, 28 Jan. 2018
  • Katendrecht, a former red light district on a quay in the city center, has a great array of options, from gourmet burgers to the best tacos this side of the Atlantic.
    — Joe Minihane, CNN, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Similar scenes play out along local quays and public parks.
    — Youcef Bounab, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2023
  • So, be sure to check the boat times, pack a bag with supplies for both sunny and wet weather, and head to the quay in time to jump aboard a boat and head out to discover each island for yourself.
    — Julia O'Driscoll, The Week Uk, theweek, 11 June 2024
  • People lingering on the quay during daytime hours risk being hit with a fine of almost $300.
    — David Nikel, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Reflection on the quays of Sète, original silver print, 1950.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023
  • There was Bruce, standing on the quay in glo-yellow Crocs, next to Lee Marie: 57 feet long, not quite 7 feet wide, its boxy superstructure as shiny-black as a mobster’s coffin.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The decision to base the hotel opposite the quays in Kowloon, and not on Hong Kong Island itself, was no coincidence.
    — Isabelle Kliger, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The maps also show a turning basin with two quays, evidencing that the Gormley Canal was not primarily designed for drainage, since docks would have blocked the flow of runoff.
    — Richard Campanella, NOLA.com, 6 Mar. 2018
  • The market's location, a quay in a town 25 miles from the G7 Summit's location, was earmarked by local police as a location for protests.
    — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 12 June 2021
  • But a bicycle path, inaugurated in 2005, brought Roman cyclists and runners back to the quays.
    — Lee Marshall, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The first is Thonis-Heracleion, which in the eighth century B.C. was a huge port complex, incorporating an array of canals, quays and sandbars.
    — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The ruse was rumbled when a sailor saw colleagues unloading several sacks of cigarettes onto the quay in Brindisi, and texted a photograph of them to the ship’s captain, Oscar Altiero.
    — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2020
  • And researchers in wet suits probing the harbor floor are mapping the old quays and the fabled royal quarter, including, just possibly, the palace of that most beguiling of all Alexandrians, Cleopatra.
    — John Brownlee, WIRED, 27 Apr. 2007
  • Rivers swollen by France's heaviest rains in 50 years have engulfed romantic quays in Paris, swallowed up gardens and roads, halted riverboat cruises - and raised concerns about climate change.
    — Associated Press, Houston Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2018

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