How to Use dry dock in a Sentence

dry dock

noun
  • The dry dock is full.
  • The ship is in dry dock.
  • So the port’s two dry docks lay idle.
    — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Further aft lies a dry dock from which the crew can launch and retrieve tenders.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Spending another three months away while your ship is in dry dock is a no-no.
    — WSJ, 25 May 2022
  • Much of the ship is put together outside of the water in dry dock.
    — Ramsey Qubein, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Feb. 2020
  • This method also means upgrades or repairs would not force a ship into dry dock.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 4 May 2026
  • The port, which owned the shipyards, and the two big dry docks tried to find a buyer for the business.
    — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Indeed, the Falcon isn’t an easy spacecraft to put in dry dock.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Micky Arison didn't spend at those levels to put such players in dry dock.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 25 Sep. 2017
  • These checks are expected to direct future dry dock work.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The submarine was in a dry dock at the base for standard maintenance work.
    — Nicole Chavez, CNN, 6 Dec. 2019
  • To begin with, the submarine has to be removed from the waters and moved to a dry dock.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Like so many others, the threesome was in dry dock for the past two years and wanted to check out the grand opening.
    — George Castle, Chicago Tribune, 6 June 2022
  • The bracing wind that whips through the vast dry dock does not seem to diminish the enthusiasm of the crew.
    — Amy Davis, Baltimore Sun, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The Navy has commissioned it to build a $128 million dry dock.
    — al, 29 Jan. 2023
  • Heard that some of the crew is going to get a few days’ leave, as our shop bas been damaged and has to be put into dry dock for a few days.
    — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2018
  • That ship had already lost a berth at a dry dock in Bulgaria for a routine inspection.
    — Jennifer Smith, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2021
  • If the cleaning is done in a dry dock, which allows the process to be more thorough, that figure can be as much as 17%.
    — The Economist, 30 May 2020
  • Our ship had been moved into dry dock so seven of us fellows who had been on liberty jumped a cab and went to the Navy yard.
    — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2018
  • The dry dock where the ship had been getting assembled was filled with water from the Ems River.
    — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Normal schedules dictate that at any point 10% of the fleet is in dry dock, under repair or in overhaul.
    — Seth Cropsey, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2022
  • With 300 berths in its dry dock, the yard carries out roughly a tenth of the refit and repair of all the big yachts in the world.
    — The Economist, 27 June 2020
  • The boat’s former owner sent it to a Singapore dry dock to await bids from potential buyers.
    — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2025
  • By a few minutes after noon, the dry dock had risen more than seven feet, and the tips of the ship's propellers were visible above the water.
    — Lawrence Specker, AL.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The whole operation, from when the ship arrives at the dry dock to the point where it's approved to be sent back out into service, can take just nine weeks.
    — New Atlas, 7 Sep. 2024
  • And to get the dry dock in place, the company must ensure the Galveston Ship Channel is deep enough.
    — John Wayne Ferguson, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Apr. 2022
  • The incident fanned fears among investors for the cruise industry, which sat in dry dock for 15-months due to the pandemic.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 28 June 2021
  • Connecticut will pay $20 million for a dredging project that will allow subs to launch from a new dry dock in Groton.
    — Joseph De Avila, WSJ, 1 May 2018
  • Called Dock 72, the building stretches along a finger of land near working dry docks on the East River.
    — Keiko Morris, WSJ, 21 Aug. 2017

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