dry dock
Example Sentences
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After a brief stay in a corporate dry dock, the pirate ship returned to the high seas.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
German investigators trying to establish who sabotaged Nord Stream discovered the Andromeda in dry dock on the island of Rügen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
A surprise announcement was £20m to "renew infrastructure" at Inchgreen - a huge dry dock in Greenock which has been barely used for more than a decade.
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2025
Uranga said the next step is to lift the boat, which sank after the fire, and tow it to dry dock where a more thorough investigation can be undertaken.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2024
Mom finally put her foot down and insisted it was okay for me to quit, scuttling Stephen Kellner’s dreams of me playing professional soccer before they even made it out of dry dock.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
