Sentence examples for not a ship from inspiring English sources

Not a ship would sail until there was action.

I decide it's not a ship but an ark.

It is not a ship that Cornelius commands, but a small London business in its death throes.

"I have yet to see a depiction of the ark that's not a ship," he said, surveying his work one sunny day before Sandy struck.

There's not a ship in sight, and few human figures, just the occasional huge crane standing amid rubble and twisted metal.

"It is my reasoned opinion," a Duluth resident said not long ago, "that if old Neptune had been turned around, so he looked out over the lake, not a ship would dare make port here.

A contemporary MP, Henry Grattan, described him admiringly as: "Not a ship-of-the line, but he carries many guns, is tight built, and is out in all weathers".

Serra said it wasn't a ship, and he wouldn't put up with that.

"Any smaller than us you weren't a ship, you were a boat.

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

Maury did not want a ship "stout enough to keep the sea".