Example sentences for: shipyard

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

  • Now the largest private shipyard in the world, this was the intended target that the US Air Force B-52 missed when it dropped the second atomic bomb.

  • Attracted by the natural harbor, one of the world’s largest, the British established the town in the mid-18th century as a naval garrison and shipyard to counter the French fortress of Louisbourg farther north on Cape Breton (see page 130).

  • Lech Walesa, a shipyard electrician, led worker strikes in Gdansk.

  • In the New York Times Book Review , Robert Fishman compares Bissinger's book to "such classics of urban reportage and analysis as J. Anthony Lukas's Common Ground ." Reviewers especially like its scope: Bissinger interweaves the stories of a shipyard worker and a poor black grandmother with political history.

  • Their interest is in protecting the shipyard in Quincy, Mass.


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