Sentence examples for built a ship from inspiring English sources

During World War II, it built a ship a week -- 140 naval vessels and 140 merchantmen.

They settled on six and two pilots, and built a ship 1.6 times bigger than the original.

Liverpool, the loser, retaliated by charging enormous dock dues on Manchester's cotton imports, so Manchester built a ship canal to by-pass Liverpool.

In search of answers, Vann built a ship and set out for the watery depths — only to come close to reuniting with his father in the void.

Hundreds of books, studies and official inquiries have addressed the deeper question of how a ship that was so costly and so well built — a ship declared to be unsinkable — could have ended so terribly.

Along its shore, the politician and shipbuilder William D. Lawrence built a ship named after himself that was Canada's largest-ever full-rigged ship; his former shipyard is now the launching site for Shubenacadie River Runners.

To help his fur trade with the Indians, he built a shipping empire, competing with the Boston Brahmins for a lucrative slice of the infamous opium trade with China.

"I decided to build a ship".

"You think Brazil can lose this chance and not build a ship industry?" he asks.

It takes five years to build a ship, but only three weeks to rebrand it.

You can build a ship — maybe a whole fleet — in a bottle, but then what do you do with it?