How to Use dock in a Sentence

dock

1 of 2 verb

• The spacecraft was slated to dock with the ISS around 1:15 a.m.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 3 Mar. 2023
• The first will dock with Haven-1 for up to 30 days while orbiting the Earth.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 15 May 2023
• The ships were docked in San Francisco, where the crews were on shore leave.
  — Longreads, 5 Sep. 2023
• The ship will dock with the gas depot, fuel up, and head off toward the moon.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 14 Mar. 2024
• The city has also ruled that boats docked along the Seine must connect to the city’s wastewater network.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 31 July 2023
• By December 15, two other tea ships, the Eleanor and the Beaver, had docked in Boston.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Dec. 2023
• The earliest ship to dock in Milwaukee did so in May in 2023.
  — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
• Off the Siberian coast, not far from Alaska, a Russian ship has been docked at port for four years.
  — Angela Dewan, CNN, 1 Feb. 2024
• News reports noted that Brero drove a Porsche Cayenne and docked a motorboat on the lake.
  — David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• The school district marked the teachers as absent and docked their pay for Aug. 26 and 27, according to the complaint.
  — Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2023
• It’s now slated to dock in Costa Maya on Wednesday rather than Cozumel.
  — Jessica Schladebeck New York Daily News (tns), al, 6 Apr. 2023
• In the 2009 episode, Zack, Cody and their friends dock in the Italian capital to take a break from their cruise ship school shenanigans.
  — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• The vessel, known as the Dali, will be towed back into the harbor and docked for a damage assessment.
  — USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2024
• As the inn’s website warns, guests must be able to climb 4 to 12 feet up a ladder (depending on the tide) from bobbing boat to dock.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2024
• Smaller fleets dock in the heart of town, making exploration easy.
  — Maridel Reyes, Women's Health, 6 June 2023
• An arson bomb squad later found a 32-year-old man on a boat docked near the fire, Seattle police said.
  — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2023
• Many of the people walking through the park were headed to the Lady Atlantic boat docked nearby, not the polling center.
  — David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2023
• The long, 20-inch hose sprayer features a powerful magnet that keeps it docked in place and avoids drooping.
  — Rachel Simon, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 May 2023
• That flight would include four crew members who would dock with the station for as many as 30 days while orbiting the Earth.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 12 May 2023
• When the ferry docked, a second, larger brawl ensued, with one man wielding a deck chair.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2023
• Yang, who finished with a bronze, is wrongly docked a tenth of a point on his second-to-last routine, the parallel bars.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• The fighting appeared to follow a riverboat's attempt to dock where a pontoon boat was moored.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 7 Aug. 2023
• Pickett noted the riverboat would not have been able to dock without hitting the smaller boat.
  — Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN, 25 Sep. 2023
• On Wednesday, a ship with Volkswagens arrived and was able to dock like normal.
  — Camila Domonoske, NPR, 28 Mar. 2024
• Hours after the women’s event ended, a fight broke out on the riverfront when a Montgomery riverboat called the Harriott II tried to dock.
  — Gabrielle Settles, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2023
• The crew instructed the survivors there to hold on to their belongings as the ship docked on an island in Basilan province.
  — Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2023
• He was docked a strike for a pitch clock violation, then struck out two pitches later.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 23 Mar. 2023
• The fight broke out Saturday evening as the Harriott II was trying to dock after a cruise but could not do so because a pontoon boat was in the way.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 11 Aug. 2023
• The spacecraft successfully docked with the I.S.S. during its second test flight in 2022, despite the failure of some thrusters during the launch.
  — Joe Hernandez, NPR, 6 May 2024
• The cruise docked, and the party spent some time in Grand Turk before Wenrich was eventually detained when he was caught with two stray bullets in his bag while returning home.
  — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 27 Apr. 2024

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dock

2 of 2 noun

• His townhouse faces the Gulf Coast and a chunk of dock that was torn from it.
  — Christopher Cann, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
• The son swam to his sisters and brought them back to a nearby dock.
  — CBS News, 10 July 2023
• When the ship docks in Alexandria, Bella sees the slum poor.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 8 Dec. 2023
• For many years the family had a dock at the end of the walkway to the water.
  — James Alexander, Hartford Courant, 7 Jan. 2024
• The easiest way to leap to the big screen is to connect your Deck to a dock.
  — WIRED, 28 Oct. 2023
• Don’t be afraid to toss this cooler on a dock or in the bottom of your boat.
  — Travis Smola, Field & Stream, 3 May 2023
• Kayaking was made easy with a public dock less than half a mile from the house.
  — Paris Wilson, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2023
• This new dock is more similar to the two-in-one station Anker made for the Quest 2.
  — Emma Roth, The Verge, 27 Sep. 2023
• Marrocchino said one of the largest submersible fleets in the ocean docks on the island.
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 10 May 2023
• Due to the extent of the fire, personnel began attacking the fire from the shore and dock.
  — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 30 Mar. 2023
• Locate the Trashcan Icon in your dock bar on your desktop.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 15 Feb. 2024
• The Fortitude drifted too close to the cannibal shore and its hull was ripped open by a dock.
  — Mike O’Brien, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2023
• His home studio overlooks half a dozen speedboats idled at a dock.
  — Jeff Weiss, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• There’s also a boat dock, fish house, four boat slips with two lifts and an 8,000-square-foot workshop, with four bays and full RV hookup.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 10 July 2023
• Shady porches and hammocks in the garden, chaises near the river’s sandy beach and a long dock with chairs canopied with shade.
  — Jane Wooldridge, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• Its flip-top lid protects the charging docks and a reset button.
  — PCMAG, 5 Feb. 2024
• The tiered landscape extends to a private dock and an in-water swim border.
  — Jeastman, oregonlive, 4 Aug. 2023
• Fish is ordered by the pound and eaten at picnic tables on the covered dock at the restaurant.
  — Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 3 Jan. 2024
• The resort offers a private dock and secluded beach, and a pool.
  — Kristin Koch, Seventeen, 28 Aug. 2023
• There’s parking for six cars and multiple golf carts as well as a private dock.
  — Shirley Halperin, Variety, 21 June 2023
• Relax on the deck or your private dock to experience the beginning of fall on the lake.
  — Karen Ruffini, Travel + Leisure, 26 July 2023
• Step down to the dining area, which opens out to a large deck and stone patio, both overlooking the pond, plus a dock and an outdoor shower.
  — Jon Gorey, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
• Bites can come anywhere, from under shallow docks to on the bottom in deep water.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 14 Mar. 2024
• The charging dock, which doubles as a speaker, turns this tablet into a smart display.
  — Medea Giordano, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2023
• The crocodile was seen at the Bay Colony Club in the area and reportedly stayed on one of the community’s docks for two days.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 18 Jan. 2024
• The island comes complete with two helipads and a 400-foot deep-water dock.
  — Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023
• One of the cabin boys who worked by the fishing docks told my sister about a handy trick to save on quarters during pinball play.
  — Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2023
• Jurors were shown footage of Concepcion walking in a loading dock area of the building when a dark red sedan pulled up.
  — Chris Ramirez, Journal Sentinel, 29 Feb. 2024
• In the late 1970s Callery was worried about how a proposal to build coal docks on the Licking River could affect neighbors' health.
  — The Enquirer, 16 Apr. 2024
• Although mostly rocky and sometimes with rough conditions, the small beach has a dock for swimmers or snorkelers to launch themselves into the bright turquoise sea.
  — Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024