Example sentences for: galleys

How can you use “galleys” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The author writes that he discovered this scandal only after his book was in galleys, which is why the accusation is tacked on as an afterword to what is otherwise a shoddy clip job with no fresh news.

  • (For example, back in 1991, Murray somehow got hold of the galleys of my own last book, and wrote me heatedly denying that he was working on a book about black genetic intellectual inferiority, as I had asserted.

  • Culturebox has not yet seen the galleys of the new book, but can offer up a couple of the more florid lines gleaned from previous biographies.

  • The 16 bays of these yards, which could once handle more than 30 galleys at a time, launched ships that extended Catalonia’s dominion over the Mediterranean from Tunis to Greece, Sicily, Sardinia, and much of the French coast.

  • The museum contains models of ships, from the earliest galleys to the cargo and passenger vessels, that have made Barcelona their home port up to the present day.


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