depot

Example Sentences

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In late March at the annual Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tenn., Georgia Anne Muldrow bounced on sparkling silver high-heeled boots at Jackson Terminal, a former railroad freight depot.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

The depot is the beating heart of the Iranian oil industry, storing and loading most of its crude oil exports.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026

In Kandahar, which is home to the administration's supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, air strikes hit a fuel depot for airline Kam Air, near the airport.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

Another man from Karaj said the strike on the depot caused a "huge explosion and it was on fire for hours".

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026

I put it in a cloth sack and made my way through the darkness to the banks of the Ramleh railway depot.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman