How to Use homeport in a Sentence

homeport

1 of 2 verb

• The ship will be homeported in Seattle for the summer season and is the largest to dock on the West Coast at 1,138-feet long.
  — Greg Gilbert, The Seattle Times, 31 May 2019
• The sailing was also the first Norwegian cruise to homeport in Athens.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 27 July 2021
• Panorama will be the first new ship to homeport in Southern California in more than two decades.
  — Rosemary McClure, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
• While cruises in the U.S. have remained on pause, many cruise lines have made plans to homeport in cities around the world, and many are requiring proof of vaccination to board.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 30 Apr. 2021
• In November 2003, the Cole, which homeports in Norfolk, Va., was returned to active service.
  — Frank Cohen, courant.com, 6 Sep. 2017
• So in the winter, 14 vessels started homeporting in San Juan — four more than the previous season.
  — Chabeli Herrera, miamiherald, 16 Apr. 2018
• The Transportation Department said the ship is homeported in the state and offers cruise itineraries that keep it in the Hawaiian islands.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 9 Apr. 2020
• Carnival Fantasy, which is homeported in Mobile, remains on its regular schedule and is set to arrive this weekend in Mobile.
  — al.com, 11 July 2019
• The Munro, homeported in Alameda, in Northern California, is tasked with seizing drugs in international waters.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2019

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home port

2 of 2 noun

• The first new ship in the DCL fleet in more than 10 years arrived to its new home port around 5 a.m.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 20 June 2022
• That will mark the first time the line has made Port Canaveral a home port for one of its ships.
  — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 3 Aug. 2021
• But its time in its home port might be coming to an end.
  — Colin Campbell, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2019
• The base is the home port for 10 destroyers and 15 submarines.
  — Audrey McAvoy, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Dec. 2019
• After April 22, the ship will return to her home port in San Diego.
  — Lizzy Acker, OregonLive.com, 10 Apr. 2018
• Sevastopol is the home port of Russia’s Black Sea fleet.
  — Henry Austin, NBC News, 23 Nov. 2022
• The four ships sail from home ports around the world, from Europe to North America to Asia.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2019
• Once the crisis is over, the surviving ships could sea train back to their home port.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 June 2020
• The ship was seized but soon allowed to leave, a deal that allowed the steamer to return to its home port.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Dec. 2022
• By now, the ship should have arrived at its home port in Florida.
  — Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2018
• The ship, Mariner of the Seas, left from its home port of Miami for its first voyage on Monday.
  — Renae Reints, Fortune, 26 June 2018
• Between stops around the world, the ocean liner returns to Brooklyn, its home port.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Dec. 2019
• The plan was to return to our home port in Brooklyn, N.Y., reload the ship and set off to our next destination.
  — New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
• Soon, Sonora state and local officials hope to make the dock a home port for cruise ships.
  — Rafael Carranza, azcentral, 5 Mar. 2018
• The identity of the North Korean ship had been masked with a Chinese name and home port.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2018
• Fitzgerald is now on its way to the new home port of San Diego, California.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 June 2020
• The strike group had been on its way back to its home port in Norfolk, Va., after a five-month deployment.
  — John Ismay, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2020
• The crew still on the ship, which has been home ported in San Francisco for 13 years, will not be allowed to leave the vessel.
  — Phil Matier, SFChronicle.com, 18 Mar. 2020
• Not long after that the Folly will be moved to San Francisco, its new home port.
  — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 29 Aug. 2020
• Lawson plans to soon sail the boat through the Panama Canal, up the Atlantic coast to his home port of Baltimore, where it will be hauled out.
  — Jaclyn Trop, Robb Report, 16 Feb. 2023
• The ship left its home port of San Diego on Tuesday, defense officials said.
  — Nancy A. Youssef, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2020
• There is so much to do, see, and eat on the ship that even the seven-night sailings from its home port in Port Canaveral may not be enough to do it all.
  — Megan Dubois, Chron, 26 Jan. 2023
• Even in the regions where cruising has recommenced, most ships aren't straying too far from their home port.
  — Francesca Street, CNN, 27 June 2021
• Between stops around the world, the ocean liner always returns to Brooklyn, its home port.
  — Lisa M. Collins, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2019
• Its home port was Port Huron, and it was bound with a load of coal in tow of the steamer Wilhelm when both vessels got caught in a northwest gale.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2022
• In late 2015, the USS Milwaukee broke down en route to its home port, the equivalent of a brand new car stalling on its way out of the dealership.
  — Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 7 Sep. 2023
• The ship is expected to be back in its home port in Virginia as early as the end of the month, defense officials said.
  — Nancy A. Youssef, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2020
• Analysis says Paula's home port was in Marseille, France.
  — Elaina Zachos, National Geographic, 7 Mar. 2018
• The ship left its home port in Murmansk at the beginning of October.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 14 Nov. 2019
• These unique one-way sailings generally occur at the beginning or end of a cruising season (typically in the spring or fall) when ships need to return to their home ports.
  — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 21 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024