berth

"Normally there's a queue, even out at sea, waiting for a berth."

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

But giving this absolute unit a wide berth has become more challenging as his viral fame grows, because humans keep crowding Neil, getting dangerously close and perhaps forgetting that he is a wild animal.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026

With a knockout-round berth already secure, U.S. coach Mauricio Pochettino overhauls his lineup, but the changes didn’t work in a 3-2 loss to Turkey.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

Nonetheless Yale University Press has given the British historian Alec Ryrie a wide berth to write “The World’s Reformation,” a highly readable, sweeping and intrigue-filled story of Protestant missions among non-Europeans between 1560 and 1800.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

It’s a long walk through the woods, longer because I give the encampments of the Folk here for the coronation a wide berth.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

The Premier League secured one of the two berths for 2026-27 after Arsenal won 1-0 at Sporting on Tuesday.

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026

Loading berths at the Fujairah tanker terminal were suspended, the port and marine management company Inchcape Shipping Services said in a note early Tuesday.

From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026

That in itself is not an unusual number, as ships routinely wait their turn to load or unload at port berths in the region.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 6, 2026

Over six seasons, he led the team to three playoff berths and was once named coach of the year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026

They settle onto their blue berths, the top two swinging down from the walls when it is time to sleep and held in place by sliding latches during the day.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

While rain battered Manhattan during Memorial Day weekend, more than 1,400 people packed into the hangar deck of the USS Intrepid, a World War II aircraft carrier permanently berthed at Midtown Manhattan’s Pier 86.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

Each “Book” occupies one side of a long bilateral vitrine, which commands the narrow gallery like a berthed aircraft carrier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

The ship Mississippi was berthed at Terminal G when the containers mysteriously fell into the water.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2025

But just around the corner, berthed where no-one can take pictures, is a group of military vessels.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2025

Their skiffs were berthed next to each other at a place called Ted’s Marina.

From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen

It had requested emergency berthing - but by the morning the Singapore-flagged vessel was alight.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2025

HM Coastguard said the salvage of Solong had progressed to enable its relocation to Aberdeen for safe berthing.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2025

While electrification at the berthing docks is already underway in Seattle, grant programs in the legislation will support further electrification and the transition from diesel-powered machinery, not just in Washington but around the country.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 14, 2023

Turkey's Ceyhan port was ready to resume Iraqi crude oil loadings from storage on Tuesday, but bad weather was preventing vessels from berthing, a trade source with direct knowledge said.

From Reuters ● Feb. 7, 2023

Berthing also denotes the planking outside, above the sheer-strake, and is called the berthing of the quarter-deck, of the poop, or of the forecastle, as the case may be.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher