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
The marine logistics group may take about three years instead of four years to deliver a S$198 million vessel, and its new dry dock operation could ramp up faster than anticipated.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
After more than four decades of delay, the first such submarine, Swiftsure, has had its reactor removed and is currently being taken apart in a dry dock.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2025
California’s coastal salmon industry already is in dry dock.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2025
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
