How to Use aircraft carrier in a Sentence

aircraft carrier

noun

• The aircraft carrier has been based in San Diego the past three years.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 July 2022
• This was the first aircraft carrier that allows planes to take off and land of the same time.
  — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 31 Jan. 2023
• The crowd of 3,000 was made up mostly of sailors from the aircraft carrier as well as fans of both teams.
  — Bernie Wilson, ajc, 12 Nov. 2022
• The United States, in response, sent two aircraft carrier groups to the area.
  — New York Times, 3 Aug. 2022
• One sailor died and the aircraft carrier was sidelined in Guam for weeks.
  — NBC News, 29 Sep. 2020
• The Kitty Hawk was the next-to-last U.S. aircraft carrier built to run on diesel fuel.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2022
• To boot, the scene is on an aircraft carrier with jets careening to stops on the platform.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2021
• Syracuse and San Diego State should find a way to play their first-round game on an aircraft carrier, just for old times’ sake.
  — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Mar. 2021
• It’s like a rock concert, or a jackhammer, or the deck of a busy aircraft carrier.
  — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 12 Sep. 2020
• The amphibious assault ships are among the few in the U.S. fleet that can act as a mini aircraft carrier.
  — Arkansas Online, 31 July 2021
• The aircraft carrier was in transit from the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea when the collision occurred.
  — Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 20 Feb. 2025
• France has announced a new aircraft carrier will replace the Charles de Gaulle in 2038.
  — James Marson, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2020
• It’s like seeing an aircraft carrier make a U-turn in a swimming pool.
  — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
• The photos released Saturday by the Navy's Sixth Fleet show a tear on the starboard side of the aircraft carrier, near its stern.
  — Greg Norman, Fox News, 15 Feb. 2025
• The planes or drones deployed this week would have been based in the Persian Gulf or on the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan nearby.
  — New York Times, 23 July 2021
• There's a shot of Kong and Godzilla both standing on an aircraft carrier.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 7 Apr. 2021
• Brett Crozier, who was fired after raising the alarm about the virus on his aircraft carrier, the Theodore Roosevelt.
  — Jonathan Wolfe, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2020
• One of the sailors deserted the aircraft carrier, which is docked in a Virginia shipyard, about five months ago; the other fled in March 2021.
  — Melissa Chan, NBC News, 19 May 2022
• In the video, two Navy F-18 fighter jet pilots from the aircraft carrier Nimitz chase a white oval object the size of a commercial plane.
  — Katie Bo Williams and Zachary Cohen, CNN, 15 June 2021
• One of eight such ships in the Navy, the Bonhomme Richard is like a small aircraft carrier, made to ferry thousands of Marines into combat.
  — Megan Rose, ProPublica, 23 Sep. 2022
• The aircraft carrier and cruiser are set to return to port in Virginia later this year.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 25 June 2020
• Would Paramount bring an aircraft carrier to the south of France for the festivities?
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2022
• But the idea of setting up an aircraft carrier to host a baseball game has been floated out there before.
  — Joe Noga, cleveland, 31 Jan. 2022
• The Soviets laid the keel of their first full-size aircraft carrier, the future Admiral Kuznetsov, in 1982.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
• At the same time, the United States was deploying a second aircraft carrier to the Eastern Mediterranean amid fears of a wider war.
  — Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
• But that would have been like turning the un-turnable, like turning an aircraft carrier around.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Apr. 2022
• One of the first things Biden did after October 7th was to park two aircraft carriers in the eastern Mediterranean.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
• The deployment of a US aircraft carrier and its strike force is often used as a signal to deter foes.
  — Lara Jakes, BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2020
• The footage shows two angles of the incident from separate cameras, and both show the jet on approach to the aircraft carrier.
  — Brad Lendon and Ivan Watson, CNN, 7 Feb. 2022
• The drills have increasingly involved advanced U.S. weapons systems, such as long-range bombers, aircraft carriers and submarines.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 21 Feb. 2025