SHIP in a Sentence

Learn SHIP from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

401 example sentences for SHIP, such as:

1. A great ship asks deep water.
2. The ship was blown off course.
3. A great ship asks for deep waters.
4. There are two restaurants on board ship.
5. The ship held to a southwesterly course.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHIP
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ship
 n.  a large boat for travelling on water, especially across the sea
 v.  transport something or someone by air, train, boat, or truck
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Mrs. Merriwether was a tall, stout woman and so tightly corseted that her bust jutted forward like the prow of a ship.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  Scarlett sat quietly on the stool fanning herself, not daring to look up, wishing Captain Butler back on the deck of his ship where he belonged.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  She had to ship her treasures, but she wanted to bring them back in her arms.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  Miss Sherwin's trying to repair the holes in this barnacle-covered ship of a town by keeping busy bailing out the water.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
5  So we says, well, we'll get a truck and ship 'em right down to Minneapolis.'
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
6  With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
7  He was trying his hand at a ship under full sail, but he didn't make much headway, I thought.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
8  I seed her reported in the offing this morning; a three years' voyage, and a full ship.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
9  At my first glimpse of the pulpit, it had not escaped me that however convenient for a ship, these joints in the present instance seemed unnecessary.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8. The Pulpit.
10  Its panelled front was in the likeness of a ship's bluff bows, and the Holy Bible rested on a projecting piece of scroll work, fashioned after a ship's fiddle-headed beak.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8. The Pulpit.
11  Yes, the world's a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8. The Pulpit.
12  He thinks that a ship made by men will carry him into countries where God does not reign, but only the Captains of this earth.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
13  He skulks about the wharves of Joppa, and seeks a ship that's bound for Tarshish.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
14  Then, in that contracted hole, sunk, too, beneath the ship's water-line, Jonah feels the heralding presentiment of that stifling hour, when the whale shall hold him in the smallest of his bowels' wards.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
15  And now the time of tide has come; the ship casts off her cables; and from the deserted wharf the uncheered ship for Tarshish, all careening, glides to sea.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
Example Sentence: (191 in 13 pages)
16  A great ship asks deep water.
17  The ship was buried, beyond retrieval, at the bottom of the sea.
18  There are two restaurants on board ship.
19  Up to two hundred people were on board the ship.
20  The sudden movement of the ship knocked them both off balance.
21  The ship went aground and started to break up.
22  I'll buy a house in the country when my ship comes in.
23  A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
24  There was a danger of the ship breaking up completely.
25  The concept of an arsenal ship is rather simple.
26  He expressed concern that the ship might be in distress.
27  She could feel the rolling motion of the ship under her feet.
28  The ship held to a southwesterly course.
29  The ship was blown off course.
30  A great ship asks for deep waters.