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Example sentences for "unshipped"

Lexicographically close words:
unsheathing; unshed; unsheltered; unshielded; unship; unshipping; unshod; unshoe; unshorn; unshrinking
  1. Presently the boat was close under the side of the schooner, and the next moment the crew had unshipped their oars with a loud and noisy clatter.

  2. He unshipped his oars, rattling loudly in the dark stillness, and stood up in the boat, looking first up the stream and then down, then up again.

  3. Then he unshipped the oars and went forward and raised the sail.

  4. He ruled from Mecca to India, and had full control of the spicery that was unshipped at “Torre, as the port of St. Katherine is now called.

  5. It drew a large income from its outlying possessions, it received gifts from the Sultan and from the pilgrims, it levied tribute on the goods that were unshipped at Tur.

  6. As their masts are always unshipped in the down passage, they seemed to me to be passing with their human freight into eternity.

  7. I hauled down the sail, unshipped the mast, and jumped ashore to find a rock big enough to use for a makeshift anchor.

  8. I unshipped my mast, fetched it aboard the nighest float, and spread the sail over the biggest part of the brasswork and upholstery.

  9. Tharn listened attentively; and when his new friend was done, he unshipped the quiver of arrows from its place on his back and handed it and his spear to Trakor.

  10. With quick, certain movements of his powerful hands Tharn unshipped his bow and withdrew several arrows from his quiver.

  11. This is easy to make, can be unshipped at a moment's notice, and hung up again as readily.

  12. On the second day of the calm, we unshipped the mast, to prevent its being pitched out by the occasional rolling of the vast smooth swells now overtaking us.

  13. At anchor in Cape Cod harbor, unshipped the shallop and drew her on land to mend and repair her.

  14. They unshipped the mast, and carried it and the sails home.

  15. After fitting the mast and bowsprit they unshipped them, and carried them home for safety till the sails were ready.

  16. With this and Bevis's books they visited New Formosa, rowing up towards evening, and upon their return unshipped the mast, and took it and the sails home, else perhaps Val or some one would launch the Pinta and try to sail in their absence.

  17. The dexterity with which he then unshipped the oars and took them in hand measurably quieted the associates thus audaciously adopted; his action was a kind of certificate that the right man had been sent them.

  18. Demedes then set the lamp down, divested himself of his heavy wrap, and taking the rower's seat, unshipped the oars.

  19. Having unshipped the oars, he starts to his feet; and mounting upon the thwart, there for a second or two stands poised and balancing.

  20. The wheels are shown folded in the sketch; according to the description, they could be unshipped from the shaft and stowed on deck when desired.

  21. The wheel could then have been unshipped from the hub by sliding it off the square shaft end after removing, let us suppose, a bolt or pin in the hub.

  22. Gray unshipped the oar and jammed it straight down.

  23. On his advice, Gray unshipped the mast and threw it overboard.

  24. They are no great things, sir, certainly; they had been mutinous, so the merchantman who unshipped them chose to make the run home with five free negroes instead.

  25. Captain Martin Pinzon beached the Pinta and unshipped the hurt and useless rudder.

  26. It was her rudder that was unshipped and injured.

  27. Hazel unshipped a thwart and laid the body on it.

  28. But we were comfortable enough, while we unshipped the mast and made ready for action, being sufficiently far away from him to escape the full effect of his gambols.

  29. Thus the second mate got fast some seconds before we arrived on the scene, seeing which we furled sail, unshipped the mast, and went in on him with the oars only.

  30. All the new harpoons were unshipped from the boats, and a couple of extra "second" irons, as those that have been used are called, were put into each boat for use if wanted.

  31. At the edge of the police lane, both cars unshipped cranes and magnalifted the junk over the divider barrier onto the one-hundred-foot-wide service strip bordering the police lane.

  32. Clay raced for the patrol car while Ben unshipped a portable warning light and rolled it down the lane behind the patrol car.

  33. Ben brought the patrol car alongside the carrier and unshipped the crane.

  34. The clock in the cabin had been unshipped when the brig went over, and the captain's watch had stopped, so that we had otherwise no means of knowing how the hours passed by.

  35. At last we found our way to the cabin door, but groped about in vain for the companion-ladder, till Jim suggested that it had been unshipped when the vessel went over.

  36. The two Lapps unshipped their paddles, and punted cannily up the rapids with eight-foot poles.

  37. The wheel, the stand for which slides into brass grooves on the cabin top, can also be unshipped and stowed out of the way in a very short time.

  38. The rudders had been unshipped during the night in order to avoid the painters catching them.

  39. The jury- rudder partially carried away and had to be unshipped in a heavy sea.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unshipped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.