How to Use shipboard in a Sentence

shipboard

1 of 2 noun
Definition of shipboardnext
  • Wynne’s own life was spared while under a shipboard kamikaze attack ...
    — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 9 Nov. 2021
  • The heroism of shipboard fire fighters kept the death and injury toll from being higher.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2021
  • This trade was facilitated by the fact that the shelled creatures could be kept alive on shipboard for weeks or months.
    — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Two books look at the pivotal 1941 shipboard meeting and its impact today.
    — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Sweaters and light fleeces are very much common shipboard fashion choices.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Though the content of shipboard questionnaires has changed through the years, there’s usually a wealth of data to be found that will prove useful.
    — David Migoya, The Denver Post, 14 June 2017
  • During his career, Jim Klum helped create and shape a firefighting unit that trains for a shipboard fire call.
    — oregonlive, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Chong Mi Land ensure everyone’s clad in their ‘30s shipboard finest, even when in disguise.
    — David L. Coddoncontributor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Air compressors pushed the rocks up in a column of seawater and sediment and into a shipboard centrifuge that spun away most of the water.
    — WIRED, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Sailors sometimes returned the favor by eating shipboard rats.
    — WIRED, 7 Oct. 2023
  • Then, the company often declined to comment on virus outbreaks among shipboard crew.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 17 June 2021
  • Guests can spot whales, otters, bears, sea lions, deer, and eagles regularly, while the sounds from the fathoms below burble to the surface thanks to a shipboard hydrophone.
    — Jeff Chu, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Santa Fe’s Tristan favors abstraction over the opera’s shipboard and castle scenes.
    — Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2022
  • The musical takes place aboard an ocean liner, with a madcap shipboard romance that also involves comedic gangsters.
    — Don Maines, Houston Chronicle, 23 Dec. 2019
  • Friday's deal adds sports betting and online casino gambling to the mix to complement the physical shipboard casinos.
    — Wayne Parry, ajc, 17 June 2022
  • Friday’s deal adds sports betting and online casino gambling to the mix to complement the physical shipboard casinos.
    — Wayne Parry, Orlando Sentinel, 17 June 2022
  • Cruise operators have also been hard hit, with shares sinking 30% or more as shipboard infections rose.
    — Damian Troise, The Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2020
  • My presentation was extremely well received by the Admirals but the shipboard test posed some unique challenges.
    — Stephen Ibaraki, Forbes, 12 July 2022
  • Technically, the term refers to containers that do not make it to their destination for whatever reason: stolen in port, burned up in a shipboard fire, seized by pirates, blown up in an act of war.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
  • There was little visible damage control equipment aboard the warship for quickly putting out shipboard fires.
    — New York Times, 5 May 2022
  • The new geophysical data, acquired using state-of-the-art shipboard sonar and published online earlier this year in Eos, span 2,500 kilometers of seabed.
    — Terri Cook, Scientific American, 1 July 2017
  • The new geophysical data, acquired using state-of-the-art shipboard sonar and published online earlier this year in Eos, span 2,500 kilometers of seabed.
    — Terri Cook, Scientific American, 26 June 2017
  • Railguns, with the promise of powerful long-range shots that can stop missiles, sink ships, and devastate coastal defenses, offer a path back to relevance for shipboard guns.
    — Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 1 Nov. 2023
  • All races ate and slept together below decks, while common dangers and hardships fostered a shipboard fraternity that blurred the color line.
    — Stephen Brumwell, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2022
  • On shipboard, Jay radiates the same unexpected charm that had captivated the Bard students.
    — Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2017
  • It has since been confirmed by other shipboard expeditions and by measurements from satellites.
    — Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 26 June 2023
  • My shipboard assignment had enlarged and sharpened my antiwar stance, from opposing the Vietnam War to opposing all war—or all war that required killing non-combatants, which in the modern world is the same thing.
    — Jackson Lears, Harper's Magazine, 9 June 2023
  • Keep your financial expectations in check by keeping tabs on your shipboard account numbers every few days throughout the sailing.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 18 July 2019
  • Scientists currently use satellite data and shipboard expeditions to study global oceans, but can only monitor a small portion of the ocean at any time through those means.
    — Deborah Sullivan Brennan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Nov. 2020
  • During the voyage more than half of these human beings died, from suicide, malnutrition, disease, or in a shipboard insurrection put down by gunfire.
    — Andrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books, 8 June 2022
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shipboard

2 of 2 adjective
  • The mines can then be destroyed in place by dive crews or shipboard weapons.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 Aug. 2019
  • All three were spared during the shipboard outbreak, which quickly spread to more than 85% of the crew.
    — Sandi Doughton, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Aug. 2020
  • The truth is, a cruise isn’t the first choice of vacation for any of the adults, who feel themselves too self-aware to be able to enjoy the artifice of shipboard life.
    — Veronique De Turenne, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2017
  • Book the promo by Aug. 31; the shipboard credit deal is ongoing.
    — chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2017
  • Cruise ships also tend to cater to older passengers and must deal with the unique fear that their customer base may have of shipboard outbreaks.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 9 Aug. 2021
  • The news comes as the Navy deals with a series of shipboard crises in recent years, including fatal fires and collisions.
    — Jon Brown, Fox News, 10 Jan. 2022
  • There also are some shipboard credits and free Wi-Fi included.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2020
  • Sailors on board moved from one shipboard fire station to another to coordinate their attack on the blaze.
    — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Two teams tried to find the nearest usable fire hose, but the closest shipboard fire stations had cut or missing hoses that were not fixed in routine maintenance checks.
    — Oren Liebermann, CNN, 20 Oct. 2021
  • The acting Navy secretary quit after an uproar over his response to a shipboard outbreak.
    — Remy Tumin, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020
  • As for landing without the presence of arresting gear, the F35s will use a technique called shipboard rolling vertical landings.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Oct. 2018
  • Untrained in shipboard emergencies, rescuers took three hours to extract him.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 9 Aug. 2021
  • The Ocean Cleanup researchers said their aerial and shipboard studies in the Pacific have shown the majority of the plastic pollution lies near the surface, where the device can scoop it up.
    — James Rainey /, NBC News, 13 June 2018
  • Chief among them, the report says, was the development of a Fire Safety Council to manage risk and drills to coordinate shipboard fire response.
    — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Plus, all of these except for the Caribbean sailings can add on one free perk: up to $400 in shipboard credit (per cabin), a drinks package, or prepaid gratuities.
    — Elissa Garay, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Jan. 2017
  • His command, plus another one like it in San Diego, trains sailors going to sea in the techniques of shipboard damage control, which includes firefighting.
    — John McCain, Popular Mechanics, 22 Jan. 2018
  • In nuclear power plants and shipboard nuclear propulsion, for example, fission took the place of coal and oil burned to turn water into the steam used to spin turbines.
    — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 22 Mar. 2018
  • By 1945, the company was the largest of the the port's four ceiling companies — the firm built wooden cases and frames to hold shipboard cargo below decks in cargo holds or on deck from shifting during long ocean voyages.
    — Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 8 May 2017
  • Several lines offer vow renewal ceremony packages on ships big and small, and in locations that might span a shipboard chapel, top deck, or a place in port.
    — Elissa Garay, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Feb. 2020
  • While other laser weapons have made good progress in shipboard applications, packing everything into the size, weight and power constraints of an aircraft is more of a challenge.
    — David Hambling, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2021
  • The Equator has made a quick turnaround in port—enough time to refuel, resupply, sign out an exhausted crew and take on a fresh one—and now the early days at sea are a chance to catch up, tell stories, be reabsorbed into the shipboard tribe.
    — Bucky McMahon, Esquire, 14 Sep. 2015
  • McCarey plays the shipboard courtship for generous and tender laughs—the wryly staged first kiss is one of the sweetest in all cinema—but the comedy that follows on dry land is mostly inadvertent.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 29 May 2017
  • Cruise line heads agreed to enhance entry and exit screenings and establish shipboard testing, along with new quarantine standards established by the CDC.
    — Time, 9 Mar. 2020
  • After that novel came out, decades earlier, the friendship broke; now Alice’s shipboard reunion with Roberta leads Karen to surmise that Alice is planning a sequel based on the same character.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
  • The crew member is being treated by Glory's shipboard medical team, Carnival said.
    — USA TODAY, 2 July 2018
  • In cruises, the benefits may include a cabin upgrade and shipboard credits; in rental cars the discounts generally range from 15 to 25 percent, according to the company.
    — Elaine Glusac, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2020
  • After the cruise, we were offered a full refund for the cruise only, not including hotel and flights, to be taken as a voucher for a future cruise with Norwegian, plus a $1,000 credit that could have been taken as either shipboard credit or cash.
    — Philly.com, 30 Apr. 2017
  • In the Daily Beast interview, Soderbergh described the shipboard experience.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
  • In 2014, the Navy's Pacific Fleet sent an urgent request for advanced shipboard anti-ship missile jamming systems, citing an unidentified threat.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2017
  • The company offers guides in particular a number of benefits, including private shipboard accommodations, and also keeps them to two weeks of touring a month to avoid burnout.
    — Fortune, 27 Feb. 2020

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