Sentence with word ships. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use ships in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for ships.
- They fought their ships well, too. (10)
- Four ships of war were promised them. (19)
- His credit allowed him to build ships. (18)
- Many had to be placed on the ships by force. (19)
- British ships have paid from 71 to 82 per cent. (20)
- French money, ships, and men poured into America. (19)
- He was like a man uninsured, with his ships at sea. (8)
- At the same time the guns of the ships opened fire. (19)
- They were embarked on ships and sent back to France. (19)
- To come to the point, I want to sell my ships and retire. (8)
- An inspector of sea worthy ships proceeds in like manner. (10)
- You look down an alley, and see ships tacking for the Baltic. (2)
- A chain was stretched across the channel to stop ships of war. (18)
- Equipping two more ships, he sent Champlain back with them to Canada. (19)
- There seems to be a strange fatality among ships as well as among men. (18)
- Aennchen was all wonder at the solitary place, Schwartz at the big ships. (10)
- On the 24th March 1745 the ships left Boston, and reached Canso ten days later. (19)
- Three ships were sent out to search for Hudson, but, alas, it was then too late. (19)
- Both ships were now on the starboard tack and the Holker in the weather position. (18)
- Ships of all descriptions were in the stream, awaiting a berth to load or unload. (18)
- But he had burned his ships, blown up his bridges; retreat could not be thought of. (10)
- British ships sailed up the St. Lawrence at last, and the invaders retired in haste. (19)
- Hardly was his rival gone than he mustered all his ships and men and fell upon the fort. (19)
- Of these there were six altogether, two frigates, two small armed ships, and two schooners. (19)
- Ships were freely given him and many soldiers and supplies to reach the Gulf of Mexico by sea. (19)
- When they retreated to the ships, five of their cannon were left sticking in the Beauport mud. (19)
- They had taken possession of the ships, elected their own officers, and had steamed out to sea. (12)
- Extremely shrewd is Master Ricky, and carries as open an eye ahead of him as the ships before Troy. (10)
- Is he to become a member of the luckless crews that man those dark, ill-starred ships called prisons? (8)
- Eight Indians, pretending to barter furs, went on board two English ships and tried to surprise them. (19)
- On the first day of June 1759, the ships sailed out of the harbour of Halifax for the river St. Lawrence. (19)
- I thought it was a wreck, but Mr. Breckon says they are always drawing their ships that way up on the sand. (9)
- But it is not always big armaments, many men, many ships, many guns, that win the famous battles of history. (19)
- Eight ships, packed close with brave soldiers eager for the fray, were shattered to pieces in the black fog. (19)
- Now, the ship sailed close up to the quay, and cast anchor there in the midst of other ships of merchandise. (10)
- Vetch implored him to reconsider, but orders were {162} given to turn about the prows of the remaining ships. (19)
- Our ships could control the Hudson and cut New England off from the rest, if we could ascend above West Point. (18)
- She made Shelton pull into the reeds, and plucked two rounded lilies sailing like ships against slow-moving water. (8)
- On board one of the captured ships of the French fleet was the hope of Acadia, in the person of Claude de la Tour. (19)
- Moving westward, he began to clear land and to build small ships to carry the cargoes of furs he had bargained for. (19)
- Nowadays many of our bravest sailors would be afraid to trust themselves in the little ships that formed his fleet. (19)
- When Jacques Cartier again took his departure from St. Malo, in May 1535, he commanded three ships and 110 sailors. (19)
- Above us, white ships of cloud were sailing rapidly across the dark river of sky on the wind which smelled of change. (8)
- I reflected emphatically, and compared them to ships with rudders, while I was at the mercy of wind, tide, and wave. (10)
- Aunt Juley supposed their Yeomanry would be very busy now, guarding the coast, though of course the Boers had no ships. (8)
- One morning a messenger arrived post-haste to tell him that the enemy in their ships were sailing up the St. Lawrence. (19)
- Meanwhile the French flag was not lowered from the parapets, so as to lure in any French ships approaching those waters. (19)
- When he saw the English ships approach, Vergor issued a proclamation to the Acadians round about to hasten to his defence. (19)
- Those ships would earn money, properly handled-good money His valet, coming in to prepare him for dinner, found him asleep. (8)
- But although two ships belonging to the Company had fallen to their lot, yet they could find none competent to command them. (19)
- Go and gaze at one of our big ships coming out of an engagement home with all her flags flying and her crew manning the yards. (10)
- He revealed to His Majesty his plans for the capture of Fort Nelson, and was at length promised two ships in the following spring. (19)
- Off Gaspé, Kirke met the squadron from France, and after a fierce struggle captured all the ships but one, together with much booty. (19)
- Vainly, for these would not to the ships, to the Hellespont spacious, Backward turn, nor be whipped to the battle among the Achaians. (10)
- Then came Sir Humphrey Gilbert, half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh, with 260 men and several ships, to plant a colony in Newfoundland. (19)
- Quickly did the fire of the English ships, joined to that of the batteries, work destruction upon the outer walls of the grim fortress. (19)
- Still, to buy four ships with the freight market so depressed was a bit startling, and there would be opposition at the general meeting. (8)
- Unfortunately for the success of this scheme, sufficient ships and troops and money were not forthcoming at the right moment from France. (19)
- He withdrew his troops hastily, and it was soon seen that the French ships, which had wintered high up the river, were fated to destruction. (19)
- While the fort was being continually recruited by survivors of the two wrecked ships, the other three French vessels had arrived on the scene. (19)
- At the most we could muster a few old ships, a couple of experimental vessels of war, and twenty-five thousand soldiers indifferently weaponed. (10)
- A French fleet of thirty-five ships were assembled at Martinique in the West Indies and about to sail northward for the reconquest of New France. (19)
- I have spoken with people who either pretended or believed that they had seen, from the Pic de Finiels, white ships sailing by Montpellier and Cette. (2)
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