Example sentences for: shipyard

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

  • I made a few calls and learned that four people had been shot at the Northlake Shipyard, which is less than two blocks from the marina where my brother keeps his boat (and where I dock my houseboat).

  • Trent Lott, the Senate Majority Leader, is not the kind of fellow who wears his heart on his sleeve, so it came as something of a shock when, several weeks ago, he revealed his own wretched childhood to a reporter for the New York Times Magazine . Lott's father, a shipyard worker in Pascagoula, Miss.

  • To the right is Les Reials Drassanes, begun in 1255, the only medieval shipyard still in existence and now the Museu Marítim (Maritime Museum).

  • 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.

  • The Spaniards named the place Manzanillo, and established it as a shipyard and launching point for expeditions across the Pacific.


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