How to Use depot in a Sentence

depot

noun
  • The Rosneft depot is about 21 miles from the Ukraine border.
    Yuras Karmanau, chicagotribune.com, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Among them: a railroad depot built in the 1890s that became a beloved community event space and home to weekly old-time music shows.
    Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2024
  • At its peak, Tullahassee boasted a cotton gin, a bed-and-breakfast, a railroad depot, a doctor’s office and a movie theater.
    Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Airstrikes continued over the weekend, destroying multiple weapons depots.
    Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 30 Sep. 2024
  • There appears to have been an attack on a fuel depot in Russia on Friday, which the Kremlin has blamed on the Ukrainians.
    Peter Bergen, CNN, 2 Apr. 2022
  • Seasonal American cuisine served in a historic railroad depot.
    Tracey Teo, ajc, 28 Mar. 2022
  • And missiles hit a fuel depot in western Ukraine as Russia continued to use airstrikes to disrupt supply lines to Ukrainian forces.
    New York Times, 27 Mar. 2022
  • The current West Loop depot has restrooms, a snack bar and, most importantly, indoor shelter to keep passengers safe during harsh weather.
    Carrie Shepherd, Axios, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Israel says that its strikes have targeted Hezbollah’s weapons depots, command and control structures and its general infrastructure.
    Jomana Karadsheh, CNN, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Russian shelling over the past two days set fire to a school, an oil depot, and dozens of houses in Ukraine's eastern Luhansk region, the regional state administration has said.
    NBC News, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Arms and ammunition depots were also hit on Saturday in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region.
    Tony Hicks and Joanna Kozlowska, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 near the base of an ancient river delta that once flowed into Jezero Lake.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Sources familiar with work at the depot said the union rep put in for retirement after catching wind of the charges.
    Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 13 June 2024
  • The huge museum building, built in 1933 and financed by public subscription, is at the east end of the park near the street car depot.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2023
  • The first batch of vans were delivered to a Fedex depot in California.
    Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Instead, he was caught in an FBI sting in 1999 and convicted of trying to rob an armored car depot.
    Shelley Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Like a printing press and a bus depot, this is a hotel that’s putting out a message and attempting to move people.
    Noah Lederman, SPIN, 27 June 2022

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