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How to use shipyard in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun

Shipyard means a place where ships are built and repaired. Example: “To my mind, it appears obvious in the context of total shipwork, the private shipyards are doing very well indeed.”

Examples of shipyard by meaning

nounA place where ships are built and repaired.

  • To my mind, it appears obvious in the context of total shipwork, the private shipyards are doing very well indeed.1974, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations, Department of Defense Appropriations for 1975: Hearings..., page 320
  • On the Chickahominy, the Hazelwood brothers' fish house at Hicks Island and the Menzel brothers' fish house near the old shipyard thrived by serving local and distant markets.2009, Sara E. Lewis, James City County, page 77

More sentences with shipyard

  • In the two years following Midway, Japanese shipyards managed to splash only six additional fleet carriers.1999 March, David M. Kennedy, "Victory at Sea": Atlantic Monthly. From the entry splash
  • The integration facilities would preoutfit the common modules for multiple shipyards.1992, Naval Engineers Journal, volume 104, page 51. From the entry preoutfit
  • Tenebrae nodded and then surveyed the shipyards.2017, John Hornor Jacobs, Infernal Machines, London: Gollancz, →ISBN, page 80. From the entry portmaster
  • Imagine writing a scene set in a shipyard.2016, Robert Mckee, Dialogue: The Art of Verbal Action for Page, Stage, and Screen. From the entry boatsmith
  • Thanks to the adoption by Amsterdam shipyards of standardized designs and labour-saving devices, the fluyt maximized carrying capacity and minimized cost.2007, Tim Blanning, The Pursuit of Glory, Penguin, published 2008, page 97. From the entry fluyt
  • The Company shall give three months' prior notice to the Customs Collector in case they decide to debond the shipyard.1962, India Central Board of Revenue, Indian Sea Customs Manual, page 301. From the entry debond
  • Two shipyards in Lai Chi Vun village restored as new cultural and heritage areas were inaugurated and opened to the public today (Saturday).2023 June 25, Nelson Moura, “Restored Lai Chi Vun shipyards open to public”, in Macau Business, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2023. From the entry Lai Chi Vun
  • Jo jumped off the boat and looked behind him at the beautiful Chesapeake Bay, at the large, imposing ships that lined the Fellʼs Point shipyards.2016, Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing, Penguin Books (2017), page 111. From the entry Chesapeake Bay
  • The Navy has programed over an incremence of 3 or 4 fiscal years, corrective measures in dikes and walls to protect their investment in this shipyard.1955: Merger of Naval Supply Activities in the San Pedro-Long Beach Area: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government…. From the entry incremence
  • The shot of David at the shipyard when he spreads his arms and leans forward in an open cable car suggesting a newfounded exhilerating freedom is dominantly blue--sky, water, shirt.1976, Robert Joseph Lyons, Michelangelo Antonioni's neo-realism: a world view, page 200. From the entry newfounded

Meaning of shipyard

  1. noun A place where ships are built and repaired.

Full definition of shipyard

Questions about shipyard in a sentence

How do you use shipyard in a sentence?
Shipyard is used as a noun. For example: “To my mind, it appears obvious in the context of total shipwork, the private shipyards are doing very well indeed.”
What is a short sentence with shipyard?
“Tenebrae nodded and then surveyed the shipyards.”
What does shipyard mean?
Shipyard means a place where ships are built and repaired.

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