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Example sentences for "other ships"

  • Other ships of the fleet had taken the alarm, and were coming up into the Roads to help their consorts.

  • This circumstance has since occurred to other ships nearly in the same situation.

  • This maxim applies to the admiral's flagship as well as to other ships.

  • Other cases of the same kind occurred in other ships.

  • In the Defence, as in my other ships, my Service transgressions were few and venial, as in the case of the signal halliards.

  • The men of other ships used to watch him going aloft.

  • The Eagle and Romney shared the same fate; other ships struck, but happily got off.

  • After a time these beaks were fixed on to the bow of the ship below the water, and were thus still more dangerous to other ships, when they could strike an antagonist on the side.

  • In the morning, when it was light, a great part of the men went on shore; some for amusement, some to converse with the people of other ships.

  • This Observation Station was manned by some naval ratings and two naval officers--a gaunt, hawk-like Commander and a Lieutenant-Commander belonging to other ships.

  • In the next place, the Tiger does not, like my other ships, make regular voyages to and from a foreign port, but carries on the business of a trader among the East Indian islands.

  • And, in truth, I do take it to be so: for that I have seen the like in other ships at sea, and in sundry ships at once.

  • To move a vessel from one place to another by warps, which are attached to buoys, to other ships, to anchors, or to certain fixed objects on shore.

  • Those on which the set of surface currents are exhibited, derived from papers found in bottles which have been thrown overboard for that purpose, and washed up on the beach, or picked up by other ships.

  • The ship in which the admiral hoists his flag; whatever the rank of the commander be; all the lieutenants take rank before their class in other ships.

  • Other ships followed us outside the French line, but the greater number were inside.

  • While the admiral was on shore we were busily employed in refitting the `Victory,' while a number of other ships he had wished to have with him were got ready for sea.

  • The court consisted of the captains and commanders of other ships of the fleet.

  • Other ships of the fleet will be in this afternoon, and the court will probably sit early to-morrow morning.

  • When an admiral is about it behooves the commanders of other ships to be on their guard, to keep a sharp lookout for surprises.

  • But now Olaf had managed to get his vessel between the two other ships, and, having the wind in his sail and his oars at work, he quickly outdistanced the viking, and sped along at a great rate towards the sinking trading ship.

  • There he harried along the coasts and got a good store of cattle and corn, and won many men and two other ships to his following.

  • The King answered: "I had the Serpent built longer than other ships, so that she might be put forward more boldly in battle, and be well known in fighting as in sailing.

  • In the crews of other ships we find mention of the men of Exeter, or of the county of Devon, or the Earl of Arundel, or some other great noble, who were similarly mustered apart.

  • The duke led his fleet in the =Royal Charles= of eighty guns, and the orders were that the other ships were to follow his light.

  • In his alliance with Jake Nuddle for the blowing up of the Clara, and their later communications looking toward the destruction of other ships, he kept informed of Mamise.

  • Of course I've built a lot of other ships, but they were for other people--just jobs, for wages or commissions.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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