Sentence examples for ship flies from inspiring English sources

And finally: "This ship flies a Liberian flag – are we visiting Africa?" Probably not.

HIS ship flies a flag that looks suspiciously like the skull and crossbones.

The pool then deepens and a grand piano emerges from the depths with a very wet man playing, as mermaids plummet from the ceiling and a pirate ship flies through the air, acrobats dangling from the sails.

The term "flag of convenience" has been in use since the 1950s, and it refers to the civil ensign a ship flies in order to indicate its country of registration or flag state.

The ship flew only one flag, the red British ensign.

From a pole on the stern, the ship flew a Chinese-style red flag.

The Iranian national news agency said that revolutionary guards boarded an Iraqi ship flying under a Honduran flag on Saturday.

Last week, pirates attacked the MV Nele Maersk, a container ship flying under the Danish flag about 1,100 miles east of Mogadishu, Somalia.

As well as Casement, the Germans sent 20,000 guns on a ship flying false Norwegian colours; they were never landed.

For the first time in 50 years, a cruise ship flying the American flag will soon be sailing the seas.

As the sail bellied with the wind the ship flew through the deep blue water, and the foam hissed against her bows as she sped onward.