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Example sentences for: shipbuilding

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

On an island where shipbuilding was an important industry, men had the skills to design and produce fast boats.
However, as the Ottoman Turks in the 15th century dominated the Mediterranean and shipbuilding technology improved, longer Atlantic journeys became a serious prospect.
It was a fiercely independent settlement with its own fishing fleet and shipbuilding industry.
Thus, the city dominated river traffic and prospered from a flourishing trade in fur, lumber, shipbuilding, tanneries, furniture, and textiles.
As a source of shipbuilding timber in a key location, the island was a kingpin in the far flung commercial empire, and became the Republic’s first formally constituted overseas colony.