Sentence examples for shipping town from inspiring English sources
It's definitely a shipping town.
Westport was a big shipping town from the 1870's until the 1920's.
We lived in a small iron-ore shipping town 370 miles north of Quebec City with other immigrants.
By the Middle Ages, Dragor was already a major shipping town, where the Hanseatic merchants came to buy salted herring.
To the northeast lay the old shipping town of Hudson, which has begun to come back up from a long downslide, as newcomers discover its fine architecture and antiques stores, and restaurants serving locally grown food open.
"So we thought about the history of Port Chester, how it's been a shipping town and a shipbuilding town and a fishing town, and we decided to look at mapping the Byram River," said Ms. Lutz, who met Ms. Dary seven years ago at the Manhattan school both their children attend.
Once consigned to the ranks of the gritty and damp, along with Seattle and other Pacific Northwest shipping towns, Portland has been reinvented by waves of highly educated newcomers working at places like Intel, a huge regional employer.
The Vikings navigated the tidal creeks to establish Holkham, the name deriving from the Danish for "ship town".
The Danelaw left few tangible traces within the SSSI, but place names such as Holkham ("ship town") reflect the Viking influence.
Then we met up with Jessica and walked down to the waterfront to check out the carnival and ships in town for the city's annual Rose Festival.
PAGE A12 HOPING SHIP KEEPS TOWN AFLOAT As Rhode Island struggles with one of the nation's highest unemployment rates, officials in Newport, and elsewhere in the state hope that turning a giant steel hull in the city's harbor into a tall ship will create jobs, attract tourists and spur interest in the state's maritime history.
