How to Use shipwright in a Sentence

shipwright

noun

• Or if a boat should leak, the shipwright must fix it at their own cost.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. 2020
• Ranstrom is 51, just bought a house, and these days works a shipwright.
  — Erik Lacitis, The Seattle Times, 3 Aug. 2019
• The cove was eventually filled in and on that land, a shipwright built a wharf.
  — Patricia Sullivan, Washington Post, 19 May 2017
• Tower was a shipbuilder and fisherman, and Stoddard was a shipwright.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2019
• The government also paid for employee training, as few skilled shipwrights remained in the labor force.
  — Andrew Maykuth, Philly.com, 10 May 2018
• The shipwright’s cottage will become a welcome center leading to a cove of paths, decks and boardwalks extending past a gravel shoreline.
  — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 June 2021
• Residents were listed as having a range of occupations, from grocer and carpenter to shipwright and pastor.
  — Washington Post, 24 May 2021
• In 1670, naval shipwright Sir Anthony Deane built the first royal ship mostly from iron.
  — Natalia Scherbakoff, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
• Don Pedersen, her husband's uncle, was a master shipwright who developed the Viking sailboat.
  — Bradley Zint, latimes.com, 4 May 2018
• Martin de Urnieta, the shipwright who finished building the Maravillas in 1647, was also a knight of the order.
  — Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 July 2022
• Mike Vlahovich, a shipwright from Croatia, assembled the team of shipwrights, who use the same techniques employed in the 19th century.
  — Amy Davis, Baltimore Sun, 20 Dec. 2022
• On a recent visit, shipwright Matteo Tamassia, whose gondolas can take a month or more to construct, discussed an improvement to the gunwale with a fellow boat-maker who dropped by.
  — Avedis Hadjian, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2021
• Ware had gotten hold of correspondence between Thompson and the shipwrights and started tracing Thompson’s family but hadn’t found a living descendant.
  — Hillary Davis, Daily Pilot, 8 June 2017
• Although elements of the largest ship's construction are Roman, Korac says those same shipbuilding techniques may also have been used by later Byzantine or medieval shipwrights.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 8 Apr. 2020
• Walter Bellingrath shipped his Coca-Cola cases on many a river steamer in the early 1900s, and his father-in-law was a shipwright – a skilled carpenter who built and repaired the boats.
  — AL.com, 21 Jan. 2018
• Unwilling to return to sailing but residing where water was ever present, Enoe became a shipwright in 1973, honing a skill that was brought to the islands by Scottish immigrants centuries ago.
  — Zuzana Prochazka, Robb Report, 20 Mar. 2022
• As part of these reforms, the Royal Navy impounded dozens of merchant vessels for allegedly evading customs duties, enraging merchants as well as mariners, shipwrights, stevedores, and others in port cities whose livelihoods depended on foreign commerce.
  — Time, 9 Oct. 2025
• Shortly afterward, several shipwrights began working along the eastern shore, and by 1840, shipbuilding had become the community’s dominant activity, prospering for the next three decades.
  — Marcelle Sussman Fischler, New York Times, 2 May 2018