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
  • He and his dory were overlooked and forgotten by the mothership in a fog leaving him and a compatriot at sea five days from land.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Floating a dory through the Grand Canyon was my ultimate goal.
    — Outside Online, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Luckily, once the job is done, everything seems pretty hunky dory, as if there had never been any reckonings at all.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 23 May 2025

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