So far as he could discover, the case lay thus: Of the ferry itself nothing belonged to Lady Killiow but the slipwayon the near shore.
The Harbour Commissioners held that to repair a private ferry was no business of theirs, and, although the condition of the slipway had for years been a scandal, refused to meddle.
Little Mr. Benny ran up the slipway to meet the children.
He stepped ashore and began to walk up the slipway at a brisk pace; and then on a sudden his brain harked backward to Uncle Nicky's talk, to which a minute before he had listened so inattentively.
In the brief time before the slipway employees and the schooner's crew returned from their supper, Barry worked swiftly and silently.
They parted on the hotel steps, and Barry, after inquiring of the proprietor the whereabouts of the slipway where Leyden's schooner was, swung off in the given direction.
I stood on the slipway with an ear cocked to catch the first faint beat of the engines.
Two motor-boats detached themselves from the slipway and raced to the wreck.
With the little group of pilots on the slipway I returned to the mess to finish my interrupted dinner.
He joined me on theslipway and we stood together in the velvety darkness listening.
It strained the resources of the War Flight, but five machines were finally shoved down the slipway into the water.
Two boats were shoved out on the slipway and their engines warmed.
I again went out on the slipway and listened for the missing boat, and was joined by the I.
I had already worn out a pair of thick-soled boots galloping to and fro between the slipway and the ship's office.
They were shoved down the slipwayand turned over to the Old Man of the Sea.
As the three flying-boats were rolled out on the slipway and their crews climbed on board, four lean destroyers glided down the harbour in line ahead and passed out between the guardships, bound on the same errand.
As Billiken boomed in over the harbour and shut off his engines to glide down, somebody on the slipway cried: "He's dropped his bombs.
The working party attached a stout line to the rear of the trolley, knocked away the chocks, and rolled the boat out on the slipway to where it began to slope down into the water.
And then he was on the water and being towed into the slipway by a motor-boat.
From the time of leaving the slipway five minutes had not elapsed.
I speak with knowledge on the matter, as I was well acquainted with this firm, having been their Consulting Engineer for the construction of the Slipway at Canacao for which they were agents.
I then gathered up the fish and placed them in a basket which was stowed away in the eyes of the boat; and throwing the rope strap over my shoulders, trudged with my load up the slipway until I stood upon the top of the quay.
It was a sort of slipway leading down from the top of the quay to the water's edge; and some ten or a dozen other fishing-boats were either hauled up there, or moored alongside.
Half an hour of sharp walking brought me down to the harbour; and I at once proceeded to the slipway where I had moored the boat on the previous night.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slipway" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
