ship out

Example Sentences

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As a young man, he’d manned the tail gun of a B-24 in World War II. Later, he lived at a retirement home less than a knot or so up the bay from the destroyer, and he could see the ship out the window whenever he looked up from his book.

From Salon

Charlie served at Fort Eustis, the transportation headquarters for the entire army, where all the soldiers would ship out for their assignments.

From Literature

He’d been too young to serve in World War II. He’d been hit with appendicitis just as he was about to ship out to the Korean War.

From Literature

That meant the ferry had to spend months in a dry dock, a narrow basin which is drained, leaving the ship out of the water and supported by blocks.

From BBC

The processing sites at the Altadena Golf Course and the former Topanga Ranch Motel on Pacific Coast Highway will remain open to sort, store and ship out waste found during the Army Corps clearance, Peterson said.

From Los Angeles Times