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  • This great, almost ship-like creation, so revered for its groundbreaking design, manages also to fit remarkably well into its less-than-exciting environs.

    Guardian young arts critic competition: 2010 winning entries 2011

  • This great, almost ship-like creation, so revered for its groundbreaking design, manages also to fit remarkably well into its less-than-exciting environs.

    Guardian young arts critic competition: 2010 winning entries 2011

  • Both concerts will take place at the Hangout, a crazy fun beachside restaurant with pingpong tables, sand mountains for kids to climb, cruise ship-like games and a 15-foot-tall wishing wall.

    Pam Grout: Free Back-to-Back Bon Jovi and Brad Paisley Concerts, Compliments of BP Pam Grout 2010

  • Both concerts will take place at the Hangout, a crazy fun beachside restaurant with pingpong tables, sand mountains for kids to climb, cruise ship-like games and a 15-foot-tall wishing wall.

    Pam Grout: Free Back-to-Back Bon Jovi and Brad Paisley Concerts, Compliments of BP Pam Grout 2010

  • Both concerts will take place at the Hangout, a crazy fun beachside restaurant with pingpong tables, sand mountains for kids to climb, cruise ship-like games and a 15-foot-tall wishing wall.

    Pam Grout: Free Back-to-Back Bon Jovi and Brad Paisley Concerts, Compliments of BP Pam Grout 2010

  • Each of the 30-odd state rooms -- Pandaw boats can carry about 60 passengers -- has a ship-like efficiency that displays more river-boat charisma than five-star hotel lavishness.

    The Mekong, Vietnam and Cambodia 2009

  • The systematic arrangement of wide convenient spaces, the quantities of business-like soldiers everywhere, the occasional neat piles of material, the ubiquitous mono-rail lines, and the towering ship-like hulls about him, reminded him a little of impressions he had got as a boy on a visit to Woolwich Dockyard.

    The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

  • Fine when the roads were the plaything of playboys and tomboys at the ship-like steering wheels of thunderous Deusenbergs, Oldsmobiles and Mercer Raceabouts, but what would the roads be like when every Tom, Hank or Sally could afford to drive?

    The Sky Car is Taking Off | Impact Lab 2005

  • Over an oval metal door-the only ship-like feature he could see-was a dial-face like that of a large barometer or clock, its figures too small to read from where he lay, and much too closely spaced, too.

    Anywhen Blish, James 1970

  • He slept under a high canopy of worked and beaten brass in a ship-like bed that had been occupied by three Viceroys.

    The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

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