Example sentences for: ships

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

  • Arab trade with India had long since whetted the appetites of the Muslims; when Indian pirates plundered their ships off the coast of Sind in 711, it provoked the Governor of Chaldea (now Iraq) to send troops with 6,000 horses and 6,000 camels to conquer the Sind rajas and offer the alternative of converting to Islam or death.

  • Safe navigation between ships is based upon simple mathematics ...

  • It was off the coast here that Commodore Matthew Perry, ordered by the US government to open diplomatic relation with Japan by force if necessary, anchored his fleet of black ships.

  • The cruise ships crank up their flood lights, and the parties begin.

  • British Admiral Rodney, with 37 ships and a crucial superiority in cannon (3,012 to 2,246 French), struck off Les Saintes.


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