How to Use shipyard in a Sentence

shipyard

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  • 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
  • There was one bit of recent good news for the shipyard.
    — David Sharp, Star Tribune, 14 Nov. 2020
  • But, in the mid-nineties, the shipyard closed, and Vallejo lost its main source of revenue.
    — Shane Bauer, The New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2020
  • 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 | [email protected], al, 15 Aug. 2023
  • In the years since, the island had been transformed into a shipyard.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 25 Nov. 2020
  • 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
  • But the old shipyard never really went away and Marinship is back in the news.
    — Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, 19 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • The shipyards needed laborers, and the promise of good jobs drew tens of thousands—many of them Black workers from the South and East—to places like Richmond.
    — April White, JSTOR Daily, 16 Dec. 2024
  • One of the investigations found that the shipyard lacked sufficient parking, transportation and access to food and housing.
    — Melissa Chan, NBC News, 4 Dec. 2024

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