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
• On the contrary, by the looks of this teaser, everything is hunky f---ing dory, and then some.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 21 July 2022
• Things still aren't hunky dory between sisters Kyle Richards and Kathy Hilton.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 15 Mar. 2023
• Does this mean that all is hunky dory between India and China?
  — Nirmala George, The Seattle Times, 28 Aug. 2017
• 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
• Everything is hunky dory and the sequences have a hazy quality to them, supporting the idea that this is not really the future.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 22 Oct. 2017
• Only a few outfitters are licensed to operate dories on the river.
  — Joe Yogerst, National Geographic, 15 Mar. 2019
• The Nets obviously had a summer to be proud of, but not everything is hunky dory as the season approaches.
  — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 25 Sep. 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
• Now, these numbers don’t mean everything is hunky dory in the music industry.
  — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• Over the years, Lowell’s boats have included the famed Grand Banks dory, the legendary small boat that became a mainstay on commercial fishing schooners from nearby Gloucester and far beyond.
  — Brian MacQuarrie, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2019
• Was everything hunky dory until Snowball Earth after all?
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 28 May 2020
• Rivers dammed into reservoirs were surrounded by campers, motorcycles and recreational vehicles, and filled with fishing dories, speed boats and swimming families.
  — Bruce Berger, WSJ, 12 July 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024