shipshape
Use Shipshape in a sentence
adjective
1.
in good order; well-arranged; trim or tidy.
adverb
2.
in a shipshape manner.
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| —adj | |
| 1. | neat; orderly |
| —adv | |
| 2. | in a neat and orderly manner |
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Shipshape
is always a great word to know.
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Example sentences
The schooners in particular looked trim and shipshape with their lower sails jib.
Ensuring that your boating plans are shipshape also means having your watercraft properly registered.
The pioneer flyers anchored their seaplane themselves and delayed going ashore until everything was shipshape and well secured.
Drillship means a surface type unit with a single shipshape displacement hull.
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