How to Use dry dock in a Sentence

dry dock

noun

• The dry dock is full.
• The ship is in dry dock.
• The Sun is expected to come out of dry dock on Thursday.
  — Chabeli Herrera, miamiherald, 17 Apr. 2018
• The Navy has commissioned it to build a $128 million dry dock.
  — al, 29 Jan. 2023
• 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
• Much of the ship is put together outside of the water in dry dock.
  — Ramsey Qubein, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Feb. 2020
• Indeed, the Falcon isn’t an easy spacecraft to put in dry dock.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2017
• 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 ship will return to service on April 26 after dry dock.
  — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Spending another three months away while your ship is in dry dock is a no-no.
  — WSJ, 25 May 2022
• The submarine was in a dry dock at the base for standard maintenance work.
  — Nicole Chavez, CNN, 6 Dec. 2019
• Micky Arison didn't spend at those levels to put such players in dry dock.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 25 Sep. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• Workers scooped out the soggy earth around a disused dry dock, leaving the concrete shell intact.
  — Justin Davidson, Smithsonian, 29 June 2017
• The dry dock in Bremerton is the only one on the West Coast large enough to accommodate a Nimitz-class carrier.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2020
• That ship had already lost a berth at a dry dock in Bulgaria for a routine inspection.
  — Jennifer Smith, WSJ, 31 Mar. 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
• And a 140-meter dry dock has been fitted to its Makkum shipyard, allowing for the construction of yachts with wider beams.
  — Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN, 22 Apr. 2021
• In the case of the Carnival Vista, the need to call in the Boka Vanguard arose when the ship's propulsion system malfunctioned and the only dry dock in the region wasn't available.
  — Miquel Ros, CNN, 23 Sep. 2021
• The Navy also announced the award of a nearly $158 million contract for dry dock improvements.
  — USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2019
• In the days of wooden ships, when no dry dock was available, a captain would have the crew careen the ship, tilt it on its side on a beach to clear off barnacles and make repairs to the hull.
  — John E. McIntyre, baltimoresun.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• The remainder of the German submarine fleet is in port at the German naval base in Eckernförde—waiting for dry docks in Kiel to open up.
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 19 Dec. 2017

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024