SHIP in a Sentence
Learn SHIP from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
401 example sentences for SHIP, such as:
1. The storms beat on the ship.
2. The ship was laid on toward a small island.
3. The ship is expected to make harbor tonight.
4. The ship ploughed through the sea toward port.
5. The ship forged ahead under a favourable wind.
2. The ship was laid on toward a small island.
3. The ship is expected to make harbor tonight.
4. The ship ploughed through the sea toward port.
5. The ship forged ahead under a favourable wind.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SHIP
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ship
v. go on board
v. hire for work on a ship
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Mrs. Merriwether was a tall, stout woman and so tightly corseted that her bust jutted forward like the prow of a ship.
2 Scarlett sat quietly on the stool fanning herself, not daring to look up, wishing Captain Butler back on the deck of his ship where he belonged.
3 She had to ship her treasures, but she wanted to bring them back in her arms.
4 Miss Sherwin's trying to repair the holes in this barnacle-covered ship of a town by keeping busy bailing out the water.
5 So we says, well, we'll get a truck and ship 'em right down to Minneapolis.'
6 With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship.
7 He was trying his hand at a ship under full sail, but he didn't make much headway, I thought.
8 I seed her reported in the offing this morning; a three years' voyage, and a full ship.
9 At my first glimpse of the pulpit, it had not escaped me that however convenient for a ship, these joints in the present instance seemed unnecessary.
10 Its panelled front was in the likeness of a ship's bluff bows, and the Holy Bible rested on a projecting piece of scroll work, fashioned after a ship's fiddle-headed beak.
11 Yes, the world's a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.
12 He thinks that a ship made by men will carry him into countries where God does not reign, but only the Captains of this earth.
13 He skulks about the wharves of Joppa, and seeks a ship that's bound for Tarshish.
14 Then, in that contracted hole, sunk, too, beneath the ship's water-line, Jonah feels the heralding presentiment of that stifling hour, when the whale shall hold him in the smallest of his bowels' wards.
15 And now the time of tide has come; the ship casts off her cables; and from the deserted wharf the uncheered ship for Tarshish, all careening, glides to sea.
Example Sentence: (191 in 13 pages)
1 When the typhoon struck, we were afraid our ship might not be able to weather the storm.
2 A storm - tossed ship was painted on the backdrop for the first act of the modern drama named Pirate.
3 The ship forged ahead under a favourable wind.
4 We had almost given up hope of the ship's safe return when she sailed in.
5 Although the ship started to tip over , she soon righted herself.
6 In a naval battle your aim is to sink the enemy's ship.
7 The storms beat on the ship.
8 The ship is expected to make harbor tonight.
9 It is too late to cast anchor when the ship is on the rock.
10 The ship ploughed through the sea toward port.
11 The ship was laid on toward a small island.
12 The ship is under sail, making toward the land.
13 To most men, experience is like the stern light of a ship which il-luminates only the track it has passed.
14 The ship was impounded under the terms of the UN trade embargo.
15 Try to steer the light boat to the big ship so that we can be picked up.