shipshape
Americanadjective
adverb
adjective
adverb
Etymology
Origin of 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
Simply keeping the Amadea shipshape comes at vast expense, with annual running costs estimated at £25m or more.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2022
“Belgravia” is often more basic than captivating, even with all its 19th-century grandeur and two shipshape performances from Walter and Greig, whose characters ally themselves to stage-manage a standard-issue conclusion.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2020
It was said the able seamen insisted on keeping the ward shipshape themselves and had taken over the sweeping and the heavy bumper.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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