dry-docked; dry-docking; dry-docks
: to place in a dry dock
: a dock that can be kept dry for use during the construction or repairing of ships
Examples of dry-dock in a Sentence
Noun
The dry dock is full.
The ship is in dry dock.
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Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 16 May 2025
The yacht is believed to be dry-docked at a metro Detroit marina.
—Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 24 June 2024
Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 29 Dec. 2025
Ship of Dreams details both the catastrophe and its legacy, beginning at a Belfast dry dock and ending with the OceanGate Titan submersible disaster, which happened en route to the Titanic’s seafloor resting place.
—Benjamin Cannon, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025
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Verb
In the meantime, the riverboats are dry-docked at an area recycling yard.
—Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 16 May 2025
The yacht is believed to be dry-docked at a metro Detroit marina.
—Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 24 June 2024
Noun
Once the submarine has arrived at the dry dock and radiation protection is in place, the team of engineers strips out most of the components.
—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 29 Dec. 2025
Ship of Dreams details both the catastrophe and its legacy, beginning at a Belfast dry dock and ending with the OceanGate Titan submersible disaster, which happened en route to the Titanic’s seafloor resting place.
—Benjamin Cannon, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025
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“Dry-dock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dry-dock. Accessed 5 Jan. 2026.
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