ship-shape

Example Sentences

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The Legislature’s 2022 transportation budgets provide more money for crew recruitment and shipbuilding, but the agency might need years to become ship-shape.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 21, 2022

Signs that not everything was ship-shape with Qin emerged in qualifying on Monday when he produced a terrible dive, after stepping off the board wrong, over-rotating and entering the water diagonally.

From Reuters • Aug. 7, 2012

Counsel Malcolm McCusker said the asylum seekers had been told before leaving Indonesia that the boat was "ship-shape, that everything was organised and that everything would be supplied".

From BBC • May 18, 2011

Despite its pulp-romance trappings and slightly silly sci-fi premise, “Outlander” is serious business, and it immediately behaves like a ship-shape television series.

From Washington Post

One division may have to scrub part of the deck, another will be given boats to clean and make ship-shape, and another will have paint work or brass or copper fittings to polish.

From Two Boys of the Battleship or For the Honor of Uncle Sam by Webster, Frank V.