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How to use disembark in a sentence

12 example sentences · verb

Disembark means to remove from on board a vessel; to put on shore. Example: “The general disembarked the troops.”

Examples of disembark by meaning

verbTo remove from on board a vessel; to put on shore.

  • The general disembarked the troops.

verbTo go ashore out of a ship or boat; to leave a train or aircraft.

  • This time I disembark at Dumbarton Central, a station with two island platforms blessed with yellow brick buildings and iron canopies dating from 1896, and listed Grade A.2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 77

verbTo go ashore from (a boat); to leave (a train or aircraft).

  • We disembarked the ferry.

More sentences with disembark

  • Anand disembarks like a statesman from the Volkswagen to be garlanded immediately by five different women.2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, Fourth Estate, page 206. From the entry garland
  • He gathered his studently belongings and at 5:00 pm sharp he disembarked.2002, Alex Farkas, The Purple Supernova - Page 152. From the entry studently
  • Huge quanitities of alum and woad were disembarked each year at Southampton.1983, E. B. Fryde, Studies in Medieval Trade and Finance, page 360. From the entry woad
  • My first stop upon disembarking from the plane was the Magong Teacher's Hostel in "downtown" Magong.1979 July, Cornelius C. Kubler, “Life in the Pescadores”, in The Asia Mail, page 12, column 2. From the entry Magong
  • After crossing the Channel, the driverless loads are disembarked by tug and taken to the specially constructed freight terminal in Cherbourg port.2025 August 20, Paul Clifton, “Ro Ro Rail takes the freight train to Spain”, in RAIL, number 1042, page 49. From the entry tug
  • Based on a recently uploaded video by russians, it's evident that Ukrainian forces successfully penetrated the Surovikin Line and disembarked infantry beyond it.2023 September 21st, Tatarigami_UA, “Post № 1704726674435150186”, in 𝕏. From the entry Surovikin Line
  • The coaches dropped us where we had begun, outside the chapel; each child in turn piping up, 'Thank you, drive!' as we disembarked.2017 July 1, Huw Lewis, To Hear the Skylark's Song, Parthian Books, →ISBN. From the entry drive
  • The locals did this, waiting for tourists to disembark so that they could con them into paying for things Ghanaians knew were free.2016, Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing, Penguin Books (2017), page 264. From the entry Ghanaian
  • The author disembarks from a Lake Champlain skiff at Burlington, which resembles a fishing-town on the seacoast, although there is a sickly, unbriny smell about.1965, Robert L. Gale, Plots and characters in the fiction and sketches of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Archon Books, page 154. From the entry unbriny

Meaning of disembark

  1. verb To remove from on board a vessel; to put on shore.
  2. verb To go ashore out of a ship or boat; to leave a train or aircraft.
  3. verb To go ashore from (a boat); to leave (a train or aircraft).

Full definition of disembark

Questions about disembark in a sentence

How do you use disembark in a sentence?
Disembark is used as a verb. For example: “The general disembarked the troops.”
What is a short sentence with disembark?
“We disembarked the ferry.”
What does disembark mean?
Disembark means to remove from on board a vessel; to put on shore.

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