When we were crossing to France from the United States we met a girl on shipboard named Yvonne Fleury, whose home, the Chateau Yvonne, had been destroyed in the early part of the war.
Indeed, they had met only upon one occasion, but on shipboard one is apt to renew acquaintances which one would have considered of no special interest at other times.
Perhaps long confinement on shipboardhad something to do with it; but all the same, every place we came to had its beauties of some kind or another.
We can't eat the insects, but we can the birds, and a great treat they will be after so much shipboard food.
The deck steward was passing round tea and biscuits, much to the disgust of the ill ones, but to the keen satisfaction of the stronger stomached passengers who on shipboard never seem to be able to get enough to eat and drink.
So the time on shipboard had passed, Shirley alternately buoyed up with hope and again depressed by the gloomiest forebodings.
With all, thanks to seven days' association, he stood on terms of shipboard acquaintance.
Undoubtedly this animal was a shipboard acquaintance, one who knew him well; but those detestable German gutturals disguised his accents quite beyond identification.
The little girl cousin of Salome Müller, who as a child of the same age had been her playmate on shipboard at the Helder and in crossing the Atlantic, and who looked so much like Salome, was a woman of thirty, the wife of Karl Rouff.
Not only did every one who remembered Salome on shipboard recognize the plaintiff as she, but others, who had quite forgotten her appearance then, recognized in her the strong family likeness of the Müllers.
I used ter be satisfied on shipboard if a man jumped about a foot high every time I spoke real serious, but I guess we can get through this job without much loud bossin'.
I heard Severance state the fact to you on shipboard when he was telling you some of my other disadvantages.
We folks on shipboard simply belong to a floating republic, that's all.
I have seen many abuses of the negroes in my day, both on shipboard and ashore, and the subject turns me hot.
Well, before we begin,' replied Fleming, 'I would like to tell you why I interfered onshipboard and let that Englishman know who you were.
Now, there must be some law on shipboard that takes the place of ordinary law on land.
I could fill page after page with the ludicrous miseries of our shipboard life.
Our little harbor at Barlow's Inlet was completely blocked in by heavy masses; the new ice gave plenty of sport to the skaters; but on shipboard it was uncomfortably cold.
The activity usual on shipboard gave place to the most wearisome idleness.
Our longitudes have the greater claim to confidence, as they were the results of repeated observations on land, while his were merely taken on shipboard en passant.
Masefield's life on shipboard did more than put him in the power of the sea, it began his interest in the lives and thoughts of simple hard-working people.
A fourteen-year-old boy on shipboardgenerally learns to hate passionately and consistently the sea and all that is associated with it.
A somnambulist on shipboard was clearly a humorous object, who might, however, become a bore.
He had been drinking freely, as usual; but he was bent on indulging a loquacity which his discipline on shipboard had hitherto precluded, and which had, perhaps, strengthened his solitary habit.
Oh, yes, you finally get to know many of these calls and then somehow the discord seems to leave them, and, like the ship that found herself, you begin to find yourself on shipboard and you feel that you are getting on.
Reverence for the tune is a living thing, and after one has been on shipboard for a week he begins to feel ashamed of the public indifference to the tune ashore.
In August and September, when shipboard censusing can be conducted, densities on the pack ice in both seas are about 10 birds/km².
Shipboard censusing in the ice is complicated when cod are stranded on ice floes, as the ice shifts under the weight of the ship.
All of us on shipboard learned his previous history.
On shipboard he handled me as you would a bag of salt; damn him!
Line-officers give them advice which will be of use to them on shipboard later; service doctors and chaplains hand them hygienic and moral truths that will be of use to them anywhere at any time.
When not in barracks ashore he lives aboard some war-ship afloat; and on shipboard he does certain guard work and handles the secondary batteries.
Two weeks on shore, supplementing the shipboard quizzes on the drill manual, had welded them into an efficient command.
In marching to the coast he encountered Fort McAllister, which it was necessary to reduce before the supplies he might find on shipboardcould be made available.
The passage was a tedious one, and many of the troops were on shipboard over thirty days from the embarkation at the mouth of the Rio Grande to the time of debarkation south of Vera Cruz.
But you must remember a day on shipboard is very much longer than a day on shore.
Some appear to have been crossing the ocean all their lives, whereas, in fact, they are probably on shipboard for the first time.
He was far from expecting to meet him on shipboardbound to India.
Leaving Captain Rushton at Calcutta, with the assurance that, though separated from home and family, he will receive all the care that his condition requires, we will return to our hero, shut up on shipboard with his worst enemy.
It seems pleasant to be on land after being on shipboard so many weeks.
A great number had shirked the dangers of Africa; and the room on shipboard had in itself been absurdly insufficient.
The same was found true of all the villages on that coast; but in a second battle on the next day, fifty-seven Moors were captured, and the army went back on shipboard once more.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shipboard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
