Example sentences for: shipyard

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

  • A day later, a man shot four employees at a Seattle shipyard, killing two.

  • 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).

  • Arguments persist over the exact whereabouts of the prince’s School of Navigation, but it seems almost certain that Lagos was the principal shipyard and port serving his team of explorers.

  • In Philadelphia, the government subsidized a shipyard to the tune of $323,000 per job--the jobs themselves will pay about $50,000 each.

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


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