ship-shape
Example Sentences
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The Legislature’s 2022 transportation budgets provide more money for crew recruitment and shipbuilding, but the agency might need years to become ship-shape.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
Signs that not everything was ship-shape with Qin emerged in qualifying on Monday when he produced a terrible dive, after stepping off the board wrong, over-rotating and entering the water diagonally.
From Reuters ● Aug. 7, 2012
Counsel Malcolm McCusker said the asylum seekers had been told before leaving Indonesia that the boat was "ship-shape, that everything was organised and that everything would be supplied".
From BBC ● May 18, 2011
Despite its pulp-romance trappings and slightly silly sci-fi premise, “Outlander” is serious business, and it immediately behaves like a ship-shape television series.
From Washington Post
In about half an hour they had settled down, for Henty was thoroughly at home on board the smallest of craft, and loved to see things ship-shape.
From George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life by Fenn, George Manville
