shipwright - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • become: But Mary was adventurous and wanted more of her life, and thus she became the first female shipwright.
  • include: Other locations of interest include a shipwright 's cottage and a reconstructed Inn of the sort used by sailors ashore.

Adjective modifier

  • local: St Mary's Church with box pews dating from the 15th century and a roof constructed by local shipwrights.
  • medieval: Any form of clinker hull, even the triple clinker of the late medieval English shipwrights, was totally unsuitable for such treatment.
  • former: Members of the Navy Board tended to be professional men drawn from the service, either officers or former shipwrights.
  • English: Any form of clinker hull, even the triple clinker of the late medieval English shipwrights, was totally unsuitable for such treatment.
  • skilled: Odysseus made his raft as wide as a skilled shipwright makes the hull of a broad-beamed trading vessel.
  • professional: The surveyor was also accompanied by professional barge shipwrights.

Modifies a noun

  • shop: It was also planned to set up a shipwrights shop and forge nearby.

Noun used with modifier

  • master: A Dutch master shipwright was commissioned in 1625 to build four new ships, including the Vasa.
  • apprentice: Indeed, my first employment upon leaving school was as an apprentice shipwright, based on the St Andrew's Dock in Hull.
  • Govan: Following the imprisonment of the Govan shipwrights, official trade union representatives called for a public inquiry into their case.

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