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

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