Use "ships" in a sentence

1. No passenger ships had sailed since noonmeal, the next packet out was the Jemson's Luuker and she was ready to cast off so he had time for only the most cursory look but he did not find Venna or anyone answering her description on board, nor did he find her in any of the watering holes along the docks were someone would wait for a vessel's departure

---

2. Great lanes were cleared thru it and ships beat their way along them

---

3. At the end of the fjord, in some of the highest cliff walls, is an immense oval, dimly lit by the lanterns of the ships traversing it

---

4. Then you can understand that there really are ships being towed thru a mountain range by large teams of kedas

---

5. At twenty seven miles it was lost in the darkness behind the lanterns on the hundreds of ships on the way

---

6. Archimedes, after all, wasn't built to build ships

---

7. They were actually pirates, and they valued Archimedes for his ability to predict the most efficient way to loot ships and override human beings' living patterns

---

8. I've rigged cradles on ships and truss work to get it there

---

9. "The moon called Narrulla and our ships, as seen from the ground

---

10. "There’s at least thirty enemy ships out there," Raleigh said

11. I’m surprised they didn’t send more ships than the one we killed

---

12. "All ships into the transit! Go, Go, GO!"

---

13. SCS Arbitrage hung 300 meters out, holding station alongside Hardway with the ships of the combined fleet massed behind her

---

14. He wondered how Diam was arranging to cover other sensors, because too-late Bahkmar realized that they had to encapsulate all the ships instrumentation to keep the crew from noticing the effects of their intervention

---

15. Communication takes energy and only the transmitter on the Lula or the remnant of Gordon's Lamp could reach Earth, the natives could reach only the ships and that was using line-of-sight optical from the surface

---

16. "Yes," he said, "and now there are two more ghost ships approaching

---

17. The newer ships with their near relativistic speeds and more delicate construction must dodge the interstellar bodies like the veils of snowflakes that nearly disabled the Heavenly Mother

---

18. There were lines of ships and rafts anchored off every lock entry, ropes being paddled in and out, barges being drawn both ways in a complex ballet who's rhythm wasn't obvious at first

---

19. On a day like this the lake runners were used to having the water to themselves, except for those islands called cargo ships

---

20. I might have been his captain on two different ships, but he was always my Navigator

21. It was a fuel company making lantern fuel out of the morass on big crystal factory ships more like floating villages than ships

---

22. It was a casual sail between choke points, and ships going by on the uphill side of the sandbar could hail them and chide them on their misfortune

---

23. Here they got to paddle down the old inner harbor for almost a mile, lit only by the bow lanterns of ships at dock

---

24. Few ships were moving at this hour

---

25. The sky was bright enough to see the ships, their lanterns were brighter than the stars that lit the water

---

26. He said he was studying the native economy, he did produce some numbers, ships and tons moving on this river

---

27. There were too many ships to sail in some places, and they were moved around by ropes from shore that were carried out by paddlers

---

28. This city needed a Helen on duty in this harbor at all times to launch these thousand ships

---

29. “A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for

---

30. a thousand ships, with never a true word upon any one of its pages,

31. … don’t think about your feet, Lintze! I stare at the mass of people … families out with their children, young lovers wandering along arm in arm without a care in the world … groups of men – obviously seamen from the ships

---

32. They are lined on each side by ships pulled up stern-to and most of them busy with cargo

---

33. Inside was a really large telescope in a case, many large, securely-locked map cases, a large finely-detailed globe of the world on a gimbaled stand, an unintelligible plastic machine, other purposeless tools, another table, more chairs, a comfortable reading chair with a plumbed lantern, a whole library of bookcases and a big clipstand holding what must be the ships manifest

---

34. There was considerable traffic on the river and ships came close enough to shout river conditions to each other, as well as jokes

---

35. For centuries those vicious teeth have ripped apart hundreds of ships and drowned over a thousand people

---

36. Traffic was heavy on the Lhar by that point, there was a line of ships in each direction so they had to pay attention when on duty

---

37. In the dark the lanterns of the ships showed the way

---

38. This branch of the river was about a third of a mile wide here, the plots on the far side were visible, the ships passing by were close enough to shout to each other and moving so slow upstream with the barely perceptible tide that it was hardly worth the effort to sail at all

---

39. I don't know if it was the reflections in the sea, or the lights from passing ships, or maybe the peaceful scattering of tables and chairs in the street, or even the girl, the mountains, the bells, or all of it all together, but that was the evening the spirit of the village of Sophia stood before me, showed me her face and stole me away

---

40. "What are all these ships in all these harbors?" Alan asked

41. Lord Dorsal was master of Sea Hold; his people built the large fishing ships that fished the large seas and provided food for the different Holds

---

42. Neither of the ships was carrying anything intended as a weapon, but their point control laser was capable of damaging the other vessel's external systems and the naked fusion in either drive could slag the other with neutrons and gamma rays

---

43. “Understand that over generations, the females had secretly studied all the books of the Scathers, learned all about their ships and how to operate them

---

44. the earth were assembled and the prince built a great fleet of ships

---

45. and heat as the ships rose from the ground, climbing higher and

---

46. There were fifty two ships on the list

---

47. The only one of the three ships it could be with a reason to be approaching them was Curitiba

---

48. "And there is no way we can out maneuver any of the ships this could be?"

---

49. “We are the only one of the early bussard ships to ever return to Sol

---

50. They were ships of secular simulate corporations located in the asteroid belt

51. Lady Killian said that would be fine, she could use the help; besides he would learn the process and be able to do the same to other ships in the fleet

---

52. “Something is very amiss here; they never allow females on their ships

---

53. The Elders are sending four ships with specially trained troops aboard

---

54. He had feared encountering aliens, warlike creatures in fast ships with powerful weapons

---

55. Through the Ogatu ships they came in contact with over the years, these young Scather boys learned that what the Elders had told them and their parents over the years was indeed a lie

---

56. The ships that brought them supplies were crewed by carefully trained

---

57. Through the years a bond of trust had been formed between the Captains and crews of these ships and the Scather leaders of this small community

---

58. So it was to the Halestrom, the largest of these sailing ships that Naria brought Tyu

---

59. We will outfit your ship with supplies and the latest star charts showing where each of their ships is located at the present time

---

60. The canal gliders in Kassidor Yakhan were closer to the casino ships she saw on media as a mortal than this boat

61. “Should we apprise them of a possible encounter, that is, if they turn out to be Scather ships?”

---

62. Naria’s orders were that she be kept informed of any Scather ships in the area

---

63. There are two very distinct engine signatures; they are Scather ships

---

64. A few adjustments and the camera zoomed back and they got their first view of the three ships

---

65. Andrid immediately went to work mapping out a plan to intercept the Scather ships before they had a chance to release the glider on Aura

---

66. The sea was covered with ships around this island

---

67. Great canals had been carved thru the inner island and those rowboats covered the water, along with sailing ships of every description

---

68. There were mainline container ships now, not rowboats

---

69. As he fills the remaining sachets he talks loudly so that she can hear over the sound of the boiler as it wheezes into life, telling her how he bought a ride on a smuggler's boat to Italy and how he worked his passage on various ships, until, after some weeks at sea, he made landfall in the little white town of Bideford

---

70. Ships frequently sunk,

71. But after a few hours of struggling thru city traffic in the mazes of small canals or the ships and barges of the main canals, he was already thinking they probably should have taken a lake runner to Chardovia

---

72. lamps used for communications between ships at sea

---

73. “They’re a magical means of propulsion for boats and ships of all

---

74. But when the ships gates first opened, he had been one of the people gaping up into it and the glittering fortunes on display

---

75. From directly in front of her, around to the south were the towers of the waterfront, their tops only a few hundred feet below this aerie, hiding the docks but revealing all the thousands of ships at anchor just off shore

---

76. They took a short sailing trip one day when the tide was high, to Tombelaine and back, imagining as they voyaged how merchants in ships of yore must have felt as they approached the island and the fortress it once was

---

77. They talked of ships and sailing for awhile

---

78. He stopped laughing and rose his hands above his head, and shot a great, enormous ball of energy at the fleet, wiping out at least half of ships in one instant

---

79. There was more money, genetics was invented, there were high speed vehicles that glided on tracks all around the world, huge mechanical floaters in the skies and maybe even ships that were able to leave the world entirely

---

80. cavalry and a great fleet of ships

81. The settlers feared the land as well, because they feared it would blow up like the ships on the Mississippi

---

82. 9Surely the islands look to me; in the lead are the ships of Tarshish,

---

83. Given that one line of humans was separated from the other, and humans being what they are, one would be the first to build ships to cross that space, and someone on the receiving planet had to be the person to encounter the first human to cross that gulf

---

84. It will probably take a whole year, but you won’t have to change ships and you won’t have to pay for the part of the trip closest to the city where the cost is higher

---

85. He also experienced it as the view of the river these docks were on, choked with ships and becoming the new bottleneck for that city’s economy

---

86. There were miles and miles of marble city blocks, big canals and many smaller lakes choked with ships

---

87. This bridge went across two thirds of the way up the great towers on the river, way above the tallest ships

---

88. On the far side it crossed the outer branch of the Imoneea on a much lower bridge, but still high enough for great ships to pass under

---

89. a great company, or even a great merchant, has twenty or thirty ships at sea, they may, as it

---

90. the ships, and the conversation and adventures of the sailors, should entice him to go to sea

91. king, the demand for sailors to merchant ships necessarily rises with their scarcity ; and their

---

92. It was then, among other proof to the same purpose, given in evidence by a Virginia merchant, that in March 1763, he had victualled his ships for twentyfour or twenty-five shillings the hundred weight of beef, which he considered as the ordinary price; whereas, in that dear year, he had paid twenty-seven shillings for the same weight and sort

---

93. Seaboy partnered Mary Dwindle who, small though she was, kicked up her heels and dreamed of the sea, and sailing ships, and dolphins by the score

---

94. Since that time, the direct trade between America and the East Indies, which is carried on by means of the Acapulco ships, has been continually augmenting, and the indirect intercourse by the way of Europe has been augmenting in a still greater proportion

---

95. In the cargoes, therefore, of the greater part of European ships which sail to India, silver has generally been one of the most valuable articles

---

96. It is the most valuable article in the Acapulco ships which sail to Manilla

---

97. Some part is sent annually by the Acapulco ships to Manilla; some part is employed in a contraband trade, which the Spanish colonies carry on with those of other European nations; and some part, no doubt, remains in the country

---

98. The ships on the lake were big, deeper even than the one from Bordzvek he had sailed on the second half of the Lhar

---

99. I know how those slave ships are

---

100. They finished the temple, chatting about ships and naval battles all the while