ship
noun
a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
shipless
-
a word derived from
ship.
Example Sentences
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Yet twenty days had passed, and here they remained, still shipless.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Rose Summerhayes and the shipless Captain, when the Pilot opened his mail, had retired to the kitchen, in order that the old man, who was evidently upset by his news, might digest it quietly.
From The Tale of Timber Town by Alfred A. (Alfred Augustus) Grace
There, in a later dawn, by shipless waves, The tender grasses found forgotten graves.*4*
From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Henry Kendall
Now, shipless, he was naked in an alien world. n a few minutes there was only a mound of dust to show where the ship had been.
From Keep Your Shape by Robert Sheckley
Between its blockaded and garrisoned coast on one side and its sixty-mile swath of devastation through the heart of Georgia on the other it might as well have been a shipless island.
From Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray by William Charles Henry Wood
