How to Use depot in a Sentence

depot

noun
  • Officials did not say whether it was being used as a military depot.
    Elena Becatoros and Ricardo Mazalan, Anchorage Daily News, 29 May 2022
  • 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
  • Drone footage showed flames still smoldering across the container depot and thick smoke rising into the air.
    Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 6 June 2022
  • The depot held clothing ready for export as well as drums filled with hydrogen peroxide, a chemical compound often used to bleach and dye fabric.
    New York Times, 7 June 2022
  • On Feb 27, the ministry reported that an oil depot in the city Vasylkiv was hit by a ballistic missile.
    Anna Conkling, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2022
  • Skovoroda's home was in a tiny village not far from Kharkiv -- nowhere near any obvious military targets such as a railway or ammunition depot.
    CNN, 9 May 2022
  • Take a tour of Michigan Central Station, the iconic train depot that recently reopened in Corktown.
    Joe Guillen, Axios, 18 July 2024
  • The container facility in Sitakunda is a private depot, one of at least 15 in the area, Mr. Islam said.
    Vibhuti Agarwal, WSJ, 6 June 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Across from where Yasamura sat under the depot's roof, a large American flag had been laid on a table.
    Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 5 May 2023
  • The locomotive and coal car that used to steam by the depot is on public display in a nearby Sportsman's Park.
    Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Some have been able to reach targets in Moscow, while others have damaged Russian oil depots along the Black Sea.
    Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The rover has dropped the first 10 of these tubes in a depot on the Martian surface that could be retrieved by a future sample return mission.
    Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 11 May 2024
  • Now, the historic train depot has unveiled a fresh new look, thanks to an $11 million renovation that wrapped up last week.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 July 2024

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