How to Use shipwright in a Sentence

shipwright

noun

• Ranstrom is 51, just bought a house, and these days works a shipwright.
  — Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times, 3 Aug. 2019
• The cove was eventually filled in and on that land, a shipwright built a wharf.
  — Patricia Sullivan, Washington Post, 19 May 2017
• Tower was a shipbuilder and fisherman, and Stoddard was a shipwright.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2019
• The government also paid for employee training, as few skilled shipwrights remained in the labor force.
  — Andrew Maykuth, Philly.com, 10 May 2018
• The shipwright’s cottage will become a welcome center leading to a cove of paths, decks and boardwalks extending past a gravel shoreline.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 June 2021
• Walter Bellingrath shipped his Coca-Cola cases on many a river steamer in the early 1900s, and his father-in-law was a shipwright – a skilled carpenter who built and repaired the boats.
  — AL.com, 21 Jan. 2018
• It functions today as a floating museum, a hands-on classroom for apprentice shipwrights and even a spot for sleepovers.
  — Scott Greenstone, The Seattle Times, 19 June 2017
• Don Pedersen, her husband's uncle, was a master shipwright who developed the Viking sailboat.
  — Bradley Zint, latimes.com, 4 May 2018
• On a recent visit, shipwright Matteo Tamassia, whose gondolas can take a month or more to construct, discussed an improvement to the gunwale with a fellow boat-maker who dropped by.
  — Avedis Hadjian, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2021
• Residents were listed as having a range of occupations, from grocer and carpenter to shipwright and pastor.
  — Washington Post, 24 May 2021
• Unwilling to return to sailing but residing where water was ever present, Enoe became a shipwright in 1973, honing a skill that was brought to the islands by Scottish immigrants centuries ago.
  — Zuzana Prochazka, Robb Report, 20 Mar. 2022
• Ware had gotten hold of correspondence between Thompson and the shipwrights and started tracing Thompson’s family but hadn’t found a living descendant.
  — Hillary Davis, Daily Pilot, 8 June 2017
• Although elements of the largest ship's construction are Roman, Korac says those same shipbuilding techniques may also have been used by later Byzantine or medieval shipwrights.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 8 Apr. 2020
• Boeing aero-mechanics, shipwrights and college professors.
  — Greg Gilbert, The Seattle Times, 31 July 2019
• Shortly afterward, several shipwrights began working along the eastern shore, and by 1840, shipbuilding had become the community’s dominant activity, prospering for the next three decades.
  — Marcelle Sussman Fischler, New York Times, 2 May 2018

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024