Sentence examples for abandoned shipping from inspiring English sources
Mr. Baltrop assiduously documented the pre-AIDS gay-cruising culture centered on abandoned shipping piers on the West Side of Manhattan.
In a tram depot in the west of the city, it's a dystopian, Tetris-like construction built out of abandoned shipping containers.
As it pressed inland, its winds, which were clocked at up to a hundred and twenty-five miles an hour, pushed water from the Gulf westward into Lake Pontchartrain, and north, up a mostly abandoned shipping canal.
Then, at 45, she settled at the suggestion of her then dealer, Betty Parsons, in a studio community established in abandoned shipping lofts on the ramshackle waterfront of lower Manhattan.
(Rosenberg)20110616 ★ Alvin Baltrop: 'Photographs 1965-2003' (closes on Saturday) All but unknown in his lifetime, the photographer Alvin Baltrop (1948-2004) focused much of his energy on documenting the illicit erotic and aesthetic life on abandoned shipping piers along the West Side of Manhattan in the 1970s and '80s.
He finds friendship among the homeless and destitute, a home in an abandoned shipping container, and love, with a melancholy Salvation Army worker, Irma (Kati Outinen), who ladles out free soup by day and lies awake in her dormitory at night, listening to rock 'n' roll with intent, almost religious, devotion.
You've abandoned ship?" "No.
No way have I abandoned ship.
Because they've abandoned ship.
The Heath government in effect abandoned ship.
