shipshape
Example Sentences
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Two months later, on Nov. 15, 1856, Neptune’s Car, gleaming and shipshape, enters the harbor of San Francisco.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2025
And the repair bill to get the water-damaged structure shipshape was $1.3 million.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2023
But there is a catch: Taxpayers are paying millions to keep the yachts shipshape.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2023
Simply keeping the Amadea shipshape comes at vast expense, with annual running costs estimated at £25m or more.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2022
It was all shipshape, and the skin of the hull was undamaged, though the neat gyptian paintwork was a bit scratched.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
