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

The other park, not far up the coast, was as perky and clean-cut as a barbershop quartet, painted the colors of sand and sky, with shipshape and jaunty ocean-inspired adventures, and zippy, futuristic, razzle-dazzle rides.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 4, 2025

But there is a catch: Taxpayers are paying millions to keep the yachts shipshape.

From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2023

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

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2022

Kabuo recognized Carl’s neat hand in things, his way of establishing a rigid order, the force that had driven him, years before, to keep his tackle box shipshape.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson