Example sentences for: ships

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

  • 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.

  • The river traffic is a motley flotilla of modern container ships and ocean-going junks — their sails the color of grime — of packed ferries and convoys of barges, warships, rusty coasters, and bobbing sampans.

  • … An article applauds a Navy decision to build "electric drive" ships.

  • During the American War of Independence, France’s sympathies were undisguised: American ships were granted safe anchorage in the FWI, privateers raiding from Saint-Barthélemy’s coves sank many a British merchantman, and a Martinique regiment fought the British at Savannah, Georgia.

  • Half a million slaves — nearly half the population — worked the plantations, and at least 3,500 trading ships visited Cuba annually.


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