How to Use depot in a Sentence

depot

noun
  • 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 Rosneft depot is about 21 miles from the Ukraine border.
    Yuras Karmanau, chicagotribune.com, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Tickets are $6 and can be purchased at the train depot.
    Nicole Cobler, Axios, 9 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Plains has a train depot, a general store that sells peanut ice cream, and not much else.
    Washington Post, 10 July 2021
  • 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
  • This small timber town was home to the large Union train depot; surprising for such a small town.
    Ray Hanley, arkansasonline.com, 17 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • The depot, built in 1910, now houses state offices and archives.
    Matt Canham, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • But in 2020, one of them was due for some major depot-level maintenance and a fresh coat of paint.
    Eric Tegler, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • The city wanted to raze much of what remained of Greenwood to build a train depot and move the area’s residents north, but a lawsuit stopped the plan.
    NBC News, 26 May 2021
  • At the single-story depot, money from clients was trucked in, counted and sent out.
    Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • One of many reminders of the route’s railroad past, a restored rail depot in Marlinton now hosts an art gallery.
    Jeanine Barone, WSJ, 10 June 2021
  • 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
  • Here is the story behind the Dunbar Armored Co. depot heist.
    Justin Ray, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 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
  • The Ukrainian air force and army have been trying to make an unfair fight more fair by blowing up supply depots and headquarters in and around the oblast.
    David Axe, Forbes, 1 Dec. 2024

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