How to Use undock in a Sentence

undock

verb

• The ship undocked and began floating down the Nile, away from the city, away from the airport.
  — Meryl Kornfield, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2020
• If all goes well, the Dragon would undock from the station, fire its thrusters and descend through the atmosphere.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 3 July 2020
• Their spacecraft will undock from space station at 2:05 p.m., then head home.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2021
• Designed to last 15 years, MEV-1 will then undock and can be sent to help another satellite.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2020
• The current plan calls for undocking on May 15, but that could change depending on the weather at the landing site.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 5 May 2024
• After about a month attached to the space station, the Dragon will undock and return to Earth with a splashdown in the Pacific.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 2 June 2017
• The capsule undocked a little after noon for its nearly six-hour return flight to Earth.
  — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 3 June 2019
• The next day, Armstrong and Aldrin bid Collins farewell, entered the lunar lander Eagle and undocked during the crew's 13th lunar orbit.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 15 July 2019
• After five to 10 days in orbit Starliner will undock and returning to Earth, parachuting down on land in the western U.S.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 18 May 2022
• When undocked, the controller reportedly gets around 2 to 6 hours of battery life, depending on how intense the game is.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 13 Jan. 2017
• Once in space, the astronauts escaped Earth orbit, traveled to lunar orbit, then undocked part of their spacecraft and steered it down for a soft impact on an alien land.
  — Scientific American, 26 June 2019
• The Starliner, meanwhile, would remotely undock and return to Earth without a crew.
  — Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024
• The next day, slipping behind the moon during their 12th lunar orbit, Armstrong and Aldrin undocked Eagle from Columbia for the historic descent to the surface.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 14 July 2019
• More testing will be done on the Starliner's functions and how to optimize them both before, during and after undocking as well.
  — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 10 July 2024
• Even though the exterior is down a member, undocking somehow manages to go much more smoothly in Jared’s absence.
  — Molly Fitzpatrick, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2024
• Williams and Wilmore jumped inside Starliner and began to prepare to undock in case debris from the satellite slammed into the station, forcing them to evacuate.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
• About 45 minutes after undocking for lunar descent, the crew of Antares was deep into their checklists aligning the guidance system and ensuring the LM was ready for a landing on the Moon.
  — Frank O’Brien, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2020
• Flight controllers conducted more test firings of the capsule’s thrusters after undocking, with one failing to ignite.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 7 Sep. 2024
• The second Agena had originally served as a target vehicle for Gemini 8, which was forced to undock and abort its mission after a stuck thruster.
  — Mark Zastrow, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2021
• The space agency plans to autonomously undock the craft from the International Space Station but fears the Starliner could drift out of control and potentially crash into the station.
  — Ryan Erik King / Jalopnik, Quartz, 5 Sep. 2024
• When undocking the controller, the game migrates from your TV to the capacitive 720p screen nearly instantaneously.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 13 Jan. 2017
• Hopkins and his crewmates originally planned to undock Wednesday morning and land that same afternoon.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2021
• Shortly before the Crew Dragon launch, the Starliner would undock from the station's forward port and return to Earth under computer control, without any astronauts aboard.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 7 Aug. 2024
• There's a possibility Starliner could be cleared for undocking by the end of July, but officials haven't made any final decisions.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 11 July 2024
• Each ticket comes with training on SpaceX ships, emergency preparedness, and spacesuits, as well as mission simulations, like docking and undocking with Haven-1 for return to Earth.
  — Stephanie Mlot, PCMAG, 11 May 2023
• Starliner would undock from the station after a few days, then come hurtling through the thickening atmosphere while generating temperatures of about 3,500 degrees Fahrenheit.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 20 May 2022
• The astronauts then spent Tuesday practicing for undocking during a simulation, Boeing said in a Wednesday update.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2024
• Although the capability to undock without a crew exists within the flight software on Starliner, it is currently configured for crew operations.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 7 Aug. 2024
• In addition to the aborted Monday spacewalk, the federal agency has been aiming to carry out another on July 2 — before giving Boeing’s Starliner capsule the green light to undock from the orbiting laboratory and make its return home.
  — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 24 June 2024

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024