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How to use shipshape in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word shipshape? Here are some examples.

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In addition to training the ship's crew, there's the matter of getting the air crews shipshape.
Getting shipshape in the New Year doesn't have to be punishing or expensive.
On the larger ships, he is primarily a wheelsman and maintains the bridge and its equipment in shipshape order.
And when it broke, he would work around the clock to mend it, so everything was shipshape for one's weekend diving.
The wreck for the first time becomes somewhat shipshape at this point, with deck fittings, derricks and winches clearly identifiable.
Even though all the relevant bits and pieces are still shipshape and Bristol fashion, of course.
By early this week, the island began to look not only shipshape but also remarkably like Smithson's drawing.
This is only stop-gap funding, however, and it's a far cry from what the Coast Guard says it needs to operate in a shipshape manner.
The legend maintains that the Sargasso Sea derelicts are found shipshape but otherwise bereft of a living soul.
Since I've never been famous for a neat and tidy workspace, others were detailed to the task and by the big day all was as shipshape as could be.
Last night they were hit by torrential rain as they began to make the port shipshape for aid deliveries.
As he tackled the task of making the tavern shipshape, Ben breathed another prayer, this time one of thanksgiving.
One of our top contenders was a former military guy who vowed to get us in shipshape.
The ferry owner says some officials take backhanders to issue fitness certificates and licenses for vessels that are not shipshape.
We could develop shipshape drilling rigs, which are in demand with the States, and we could open up a bilateral accord in that way.
She loved a tidy house full of bright, beautiful objects like Crown Derby china, with everything neat and shipshape.
Here is a quick photo reportage on the highlights of this shipshape rejuvenation.
What impressed him were the tidiness and organization of their canoe, as if the men he met were like sailors on the HMS Fly, keeping it shipshape.
But making public finances shipshape for the euro while keeping his supporters and coalition partners happy will be hard.
Law's thick Scottish accent is more shipshape than the script, which jettisons plausibility from the torpedo tubes early on.
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On deck, the men began to holystone the planks, polish up the brasswork, and make everything shipshape for port.
But things were more often done hurriedly than shipshape at the Southport landing.
When you and I have that talk that's comin' to us we want to be shipshape and on an even keel.
The room, seen by the lamplight, was shiplike, but as decidedly not shipshape.
I don't want any wages, young sirs, but I want to be signed on all shipshape.
Overhaul them well and see that everything is taut and shipshape.
Everything within the cannery was shipshape to handle a big run.
Now we're all taut and shipshape and nobody can get aboard to interrupt.
Must be willing to Work and Keep House shipshape and aboveboard.
The crew, glad to have the cutter clean once more, had made all shipshape.
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