How to Use shipboard in a Sentence

shipboard

1 of 2 noun

• Sweaters and light fleeces are very much common shipboard fashion choices.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 6 Dec. 2023
• The heroism of shipboard fire fighters kept the death and injury toll from being higher.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2021
• 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
• Two books look at the pivotal 1941 shipboard meeting and its impact today.
  — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 27 Aug. 2021
• 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
• 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
• There was little visible damage control equipment aboard the warship for quickly putting out shipboard fires.
  — New York Times, 5 May 2022
• 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
• It has since been confirmed by other shipboard expeditions and by measurements from satellites.
  — Tom Metcalfe, Scientific American, 26 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• Santa Fe’s Tristan favors abstraction over the opera’s shipboard and castle scenes.
  — Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2022
• 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
• My presentation was extremely well received by the Admirals but the shipboard test posed some unique challenges.
  — Stephen Ibaraki, Forbes, 12 July 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• These plans include cruise-specific inconvenience benefits, like for shipboard service disruptions and port of call changes.
  — USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• On shipboard, Jay radiates the same unexpected charm that had captivated the Bard students.
  — Willard Spiegelman, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2017
• For weeks, crew members tested their mettle in exercises meant to sharpen their ability to do everything from elude submarines to knock down shipboard fires to triage casualties.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 June 2023
• During those two decades, firefighters have responded to only one significant shipboard fire since 2003.
  — oregonlive, 12 Feb. 2023
• The price includes business class international air travel, transfers to and from the ship, all shipboard gratuities and services fees, visa services, luggage shipping, and a beverage package.
  — Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 27 Aug. 2021
• That’s why so many countries that operate small aircraft carriers lacking catapults are acquiring the F-35B for shipboard use.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
• 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

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
• The crew has learned to navigate shipboard life, too.
  — David W. Brown, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
• 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
• Untrained in shipboard emergencies, rescuers took three hours to extract him.
  — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 9 Aug. 2021
• 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
• 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
• There also are some shipboard credits and free Wi-Fi included.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2020
• While prices are steep, cruise lines add perks like business class airfare, shipboard credit, and excursions led by seasoned experts.
  — Janice Wald Henderson, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Sep. 2025
• 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
• 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
• The acting Navy secretary quit after an uproar over his response to a shipboard outbreak.
  — Remy Tumin, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020
• Nicole Wertheim died at age 82 on April 20 in her shipboard room, the crew told Erica.
  — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 28 Apr. 2026
• 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
• 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
• Holland America also threw in a $200 in shipboard credit.
  — Christopher Elliott, Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2026
• 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
• 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 crew member is being treated by Glory's shipboard medical team, Carnival said.
  — USA TODAY, 2 July 2018
• While gratuities are automatically added to guests’ shipboard accounts, the amount can be adjusted on board at the guest’s request, the spokesperson said.
  — Jessica Mekles, FOXNews.com, 14 June 2026
• For the average guest, $17pp per day is charged to your shipboard account, to cover gratuities for headwaiters, waiters, bus staff and room stewards.
  — Debbi Kickham, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
• 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
• Kids can join shipboard activities suited to their abilities, with watersports and mast climbing limited to ages 12 and up.
  — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 June 2026
• 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, 27 Aug. 2018
• During his many years of working as a shipboard mechanic in the Navy, Whitney was exposed to high temperatures for extended periods of time.
  — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2025
• 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
• The wearable device will unlock cabin doors, enable shipboard purchases and act as a navigation device, allowing friends or waiters to find passengers.
  — Elaine Glusac, The Seattle Times, 16 Aug. 2017
• But a series of shipboard surveys conducted decades apart revealed tiny, but significant, temperature increases over the past 30 years.
  — Sandi Doughton, The Seattle Times, 7 Sep. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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