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
The Sanborn was renovated in 1992 using tax-credit financing that involved outside investors with a financial interest in keeping the building shipshape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 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
Kabuo recognized Carl’s neat hand in things, his way of establishing a rigid order, the force that had driven him, years before, to keep his tackle box shipshape.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
