Example sentences for: ships

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

  • Today its extensive exhibits document the long and illustrious history of maritime achievement by the Dutch, with paintings, maps, and maritime models explaining the part that ships — and particularly the VOC — played in the growth of the empire in the 17th century.

  • Beyond substituting spacecraft for sailing ships, it wasn't much of a reach.

  • Even after the first serious colonization of the 18th century, the forests of the interior were exploited just for building fishermen’s cottages and their ships.

  • Of the several word lists compiled by officers of the First Fleet, as the first group of convict-laden ships was known, that of Lieut. William Dawes is the most ambitious, attempting a grammar of Dharuk as well as a vocabulary.

  • At the tide’s turn, the slack enables ships to pass the rapids before the flow builds up in the opposite direction.


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