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.

  • New Brunswick’s shipbuilding timber suffered in the age of steam and steel hulls.

  • 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.

  • Thus, the city dominated river traffic and prospered from a flourishing trade in fur, lumber, shipbuilding, tanneries, furniture, and textiles.

  • In addition, the boilermaker's shipbuilding division has about 30,000 members45 who, depending upon industry conditions, could move over to the construction division quickly.


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