How to Use quay in a Sentence

quay

noun

• The Seine represents the track, and the quays the spectators’ stands.
  — Koh Ewe, TIME, 5 July 2024
• The garbage trucks rumble along the quays picking up the refuse from the revelry the night before.
  — Elaine Sciolino, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2019
• Leisure boats are moored along the quay of the Yonne River, which is lined with three-star hotels and open-air brasseries.
  — Hugh Garvey, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Mar. 2018
• When a sea breeze carries the scent of this huddled mass ashore, the Red Cross workers on the quay recoil.
  — Alex Perry, Newsweek, 10 June 2015
• The memorial is being built at the quay from which ferries leave to Utøya.
  — David Nikel, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2021
• On the stone quays of the Seine, even the most passionate odes to the river’s charms tend to arrive at the same conclusion: Nope.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2024
• Within days thousands of people were stuck on the quay, seeking a way out.
  — Lisa Morrow, CNN, 4 Oct. 2022
• DP World brought in modern cargo equipment to the port at Berbera and plans to start extending the quay this month.
  — Matina Stevis-Gridneff, WSJ, 1 June 2018
• The quay is owned by the Labor party's youth wing, which also owns the island itself.
  — David Nikel, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2021
• Tomoaki Saito is carrying crates from his 20-foot shrimp boat to a small, white truck parked on the quay.
  — Gavin Blair, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Feb. 2021
• Even with a quay filled with all kinds of new dayboats from the world’s top builders, the the 40’s exterior aesthetics just popped.
  — Kevin Koenig, Robb Report, 21 Sep. 2022
• Old men fished along its quays despite the rattle of German machine guns.
  — Bruce Dale, National Geographic, 17 Apr. 2019
• A small boat with half a dozen people passed by below the quays, with an anarchist flag fluttering in the breeze.
  — Jenny Witt, USA TODAY, 6 July 2017
• The new berth will be constructed in two phases, with the first two of the four quay cranes to be installed there scheduled for delivery in 2025.
  — Jonathan Burgos, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
• On weekends—the restaurant weekend is Sunday and Monday—Eugénie runs, and meets a boxing instructor to hook and jab on the quays of the Seine.
  — Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 14 Nov. 2023
• As soon the gantry quay cranes were removed from the tariff list, another equally important group was left to wallow in the mud.
  — Rick Helfenbein, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
• There have been songs written about La Seine, movies set alongside her quays, and masterpieces painted about her.
  — Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Nov. 2023
• Water lapped the underside of historic bridges and engulfed cobblestone quays, where tree tops and lampposts now poke out of the brown, swirling Seine.
  — Oleg Cetinic, The Seattle Times, 28 Jan. 2018
• Katendrecht, a former red light district on a quay in the city center, has a great array of options, from gourmet burgers to the best tacos this side of the Atlantic.
  — Joe Minihane, CNN, 8 Nov. 2022
• Similar scenes play out along local quays and public parks.
  — Youcef Bounab, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2023
• So, be sure to check the boat times, pack a bag with supplies for both sunny and wet weather, and head to the quay in time to jump aboard a boat and head out to discover each island for yourself.
  — Julia O'Driscoll, The Week Uk, theweek, 11 June 2024
• People lingering on the quay during daytime hours risk being hit with a fine of almost $300.
  — David Nikel, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• Reflection on the quays of Sète, original silver print, 1950.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023
• There was Bruce, standing on the quay in glo-yellow Crocs, next to Lee Marie: 57 feet long, not quite 7 feet wide, its boxy superstructure as shiny-black as a mobster’s coffin.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2018
• The decision to base the hotel opposite the quays in Kowloon, and not on Hong Kong Island itself, was no coincidence.
  — Isabelle Kliger, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• The maps also show a turning basin with two quays, evidencing that the Gormley Canal was not primarily designed for drainage, since docks would have blocked the flow of runoff.
  — Richard Campanella, NOLA.com, 6 Mar. 2018
• The market's location, a quay in a town 25 miles from the G7 Summit's location, was earmarked by local police as a location for protests.
  — Sophie Mellor, Fortune, 12 June 2021
• But a bicycle path, inaugurated in 2005, brought Roman cyclists and runners back to the quays.
  — Lee Marshall, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2018
• The first is Thonis-Heracleion, which in the eighth century B.C. was a huge port complex, incorporating an array of canals, quays and sandbars.
  — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2018
• The ruse was rumbled when a sailor saw colleagues unloading several sacks of cigarettes onto the quay in Brindisi, and texted a photograph of them to the ship’s captain, Oscar Altiero.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024