shipshape

Example Sentences

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Two months later, on Nov. 15, 1856, Neptune’s Car, gleaming and shipshape, enters the harbor of San Francisco.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025

And the repair bill to get the water-damaged structure shipshape was $1.3 million.

From Slate • Jul. 13, 2023

Simply keeping the Amadea shipshape comes at vast expense, with annual running costs estimated at £25m or more.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2022

Repairing the parachute anchor must have seemed prudent to someone who liked to keep her vessel, the Row of Life, shipshape.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2020

It was said the able seamen insisted on keeping the ward shipshape themselves and had taken over the sweeping and the heavy bumper.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan