How to Use shipyard in a Sentence

shipyard

noun
  • The Black men went to work in the shipyard in ’43; the Black women went in ’44.
    Brittany Bracy, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 June 2021
  • The Johnston and our own ship were built in the same shipyard, and both served in the U.S. Navy.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The first woman to start up a new ship and take it out of a shipyard.
    Lisa Lutoff-Perlo, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The work will support thousands of jobs at the shipyard for many years to come.
    Rick Barrett, Journal Sentinel, 18 June 2022
  • With more than 140 crew members aboard, the USS Cheyenne docked at the shipyard.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 30 Nov. 2021
  • The vessel was built at the Van der Graaf shipyard in Holland and launched back in 2000.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Ships, to say nothing of shipyards, are not built overnight.
    Gil Barndollar, TIME, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Per Bloomberg, the boat is set to move to a new shipyard for completion in June.
    Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 13 May 2021
  • Beyond the fields was the power plant and then the steelworks followed by the shipyard, the flour mill and the gasworks.
    Marc Myers, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Same goes with the Y-Wing that can be spotted in the shipyard where Cassian gets his rides.
    James Grebey, Time, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Ted Stevens is scheduled to be christened at the Pascagoula shipyard on Aug. 19.
    Warren Kulo | Wkulo@al.com, al, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The first of those new ships is set to be built at a loss-making shipyard that was sold last week to a rival.
    William Mauldin, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Black shipyard workers flocked to the area for jobs during World War II.
    Justin Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Nov. 2021
  • In Saint-Nazaire is the Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard, established more than 160 years ago.
    Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The terms are in line with a new deal agreed in August at one of the company’s biggest shipyards.
    WSJ, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Two ships that were being repaired in the shipyard were damaged, the ministry said.
    Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023
  • There was a shipyard at the northern end, and Butchertown was the southern frontier.
    Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Jan. 2022
  • The group did it in a shipyard at the end of Michigan Street along the lakefront, home to Discovery World today.
    Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2022
  • In 1988, a beautiful new Feadship yacht was built at the Dutch shipyard for Jim Moran.
    Kathleen Turner, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024
  • This was a baby that was actually born 18 months ago, and then had to be put back in the womb, in a shipyard.
    Hannah Chubb, PEOPLE.com, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The Dutch shipyard unveiled one of its most ambitious projects to date on the first day of the prestigious event.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Jason is a welder and is working at a shipyard in Hamilton.
    Hazlitt, 7 June 2023
  • The firm launched its largest explorer to date last week at the shipyard in Antalya, Turkey.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 2 May 2022
  • News reports said that the heads of household at Perkins Homes were shipyard workers.
    Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 8 Jan. 2022
  • After three to four years of being built in the yard, the delivery is the last nail-biting part of the shipyard’s journey.
    Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 14 June 2021
  • The British shipyard just unveiled a new 80-foot model that will become the flagship of the fleet upon launch.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 14 May 2024
  • The job fair will take place from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 28, at the shipyard just across the river from downtown Mobile.
    al, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Three and a half years ago, Olsen and Oakman set up Matter in an old shipyard in Nexø harbor.
    Isabelle Kliger, Vogue, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The Danish audio brand has teamed up with Italian shipyard Riva on two new speakers designed for the high seas.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Photos shared on social media showed flames and smoke rising from an industrial building near the shipyard.
    Alex Stambaugh, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024

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