Use "slipway" in a sentence
slipway example sentences
slipway
1. who stand on the slipway talking to the winter grubby swans
2. and the slipway romance
3. The men sit playing cards or hunched over tavli boards in obedient silence on the slipway
4. Two sluice gates were open sufficiently to let water pass and cascade down a natural rock slipway and join the stream at the bottom
5. I accelerated along the slipway to the six lane freeway leading out of the city and
6. After roping it tightly against the jetty, he had it bailed to around the halfway mark before he saw water leaking in between the planks, but enough weight had been reduced to allow him to manoeuvre it to the workshop slipway
7. Siri launched the boat from the slipway at first light and rowed out of the sheltered harbour into open water, which was choppy with a stiff breeze from the south-west
8. A wooden slipway sloped into the water and in the old days they used to winch small boats up the slipway into the boathouse
9. The new owners weren’t interested in boating so, as part of their renovation, they built a small, covered wooden deck on top of the slipway, which could be accessed through a new aluminium sliding door
10. He demonstrated his absolute mastery over his boat by the way he sailed it perfectly up to the slipway beneath her boathouse
11. At the end of the jetty he built a wooden, sloping slipway, designed to fit his Hobie Cat
12. He kept the catamaran at the top of the slipway, on the flat part of the jetty
13. After a year or so, he started sailing the boat directly up the slipway, cautiously at first, but full speed in the end
14. The High Priest Wedon then made his way down towards the boat, first blessing the crew and then blessing the vessel, after a speech on the different forms of bravery he gave the signal to the builders who knocked away the chocks and the vessel gracefully slid towards the water down the greased slipway
