How to Use undock in a Sentence

undock

verb
  • The ship undocked and began floating down the Nile, away from the city, away from the airport.
    — Meryl Kornfield, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2020
  • The capsule undocked a little after noon for its nearly six-hour return flight to Earth.
    — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 3 June 2019
  • If all goes well, the Dragon would undock from the station, fire its thrusters and descend through the atmosphere.
    — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 3 July 2020
  • That Dragon undocked and returned to Earth a few days ago with Crew-10.
    — Anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The current plan calls for undocking on May 15, but that could change depending on the weather at the landing site.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 5 May 2024
  • But issues with the spacecraft prompted NASA to undock it without its crew.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 6 June 2025
  • That is, during the process of undocking and moving away from the space station, the flight software takes certain actions, and the crew takes certain actions.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Flight controllers conducted more test firings of the capsule’s thrusters after undocking, with one failing to ignite.
    — Landon Mion, Fox News, 7 Sep. 2024
  • When undocked, the controller reportedly gets around 2 to 6 hours of battery life, depending on how intense the game is.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 13 Jan. 2017
  • Even though the exterior is down a member, undocking somehow manages to go much more smoothly in Jared’s absence.
    — Molly Fitzpatrick, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Designed to last 15 years, MEV-1 will then undock and can be sent to help another satellite.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2020
  • The Starliner, meanwhile, would remotely undock and return to Earth without a crew.
    — Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
  • More testing will be done on the Starliner's functions and how to optimize them both before, during and after undocking as well.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 10 July 2024
  • Once in space, the astronauts escaped Earth orbit, traveled to lunar orbit, then undocked part of their spacecraft and steered it down for a soft impact on an alien land.
    — Scientific American, 26 June 2019
  • The deck team is able to undock with no big disaster, and though Josh worried about proving his mastery of Spanish cuisine, his lunchtime paella is a hit.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2025
  • After about a month attached to the space station, the Dragon will undock and return to Earth with a splashdown in the Pacific.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 2 June 2017
  • From there, the crew will undock from Blue Moon and begin rendezvous maneuvers with SpaceX's Starship.
    — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 9 June 2026
  • This network will undock from the orbiting lab before its demise, becoming the free-flying Axiom Station.
    — Mike Wall, Space.com, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The Progress will then undock and be directed into a destructive reentry into Earth's atmosphere, disposing of it and its refuse on board.
    — Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Starship will then undock from Orion, carry a set of astronauts down to the lunar surface, and then launch them back to orbit around the moon to rendezvous and dock again with Orion.
    — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 24 June 2026
  • Williams and Wilmore jumped inside Starliner and began to prepare to undock in case debris from the satellite slammed into the station, forcing them to evacuate.
    — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
  • Police told the outlet that Bores' tractor-trailer, which had just left Huron, Ohio, was improperly parked when undocked at the facility.
    — Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 29 May 2025
  • One person who has worked charter boats before — what’s more, one-day charters, which means dexterity with the lines from docking and undocking every day — is V, who is killing it in interior.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Following all of this, the Artemis III crew will undock from Starship and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 9 June 2026
  • The next day, Armstrong and Aldrin bid Collins farewell, entered the lunar lander Eagle and undocked during the crew's 13th lunar orbit.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 15 July 2019
  • If the surgeon accidently nicks a vein or cuts through a tumor in a way that causes a leakage of cancerous cells, the recovery mode is to undock the robot rapidly, cut the patient open, and fix the problem the old-fashioned way.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 5 July 2022
  • The Crew-11 astronauts are scheduled to undock on Wednesday and splash down off the coast of California early Thursday.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The water landing came more than 10 hours after the astronauts undocked from the International Space Station.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 15 Jan. 2026
  • With sunbeams gleaming downward, reflecting off of the spacecraft's hull, the Dragon can be seen backing away from the station mere moments after undocking from the port on the station's Harmony module.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 23 June 2026
  • The next day, slipping behind the moon during their 12th lunar orbit, Armstrong and Aldrin undocked Eagle from Columbia for the historic descent to the surface.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 14 July 2019

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