How to Use amphibious in a Sentence

amphibious

adjective

• The Bonhomme Richard was the sixth of the Wasp-class amphibious ships.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Feb. 2021
• The well deck is where the ship stores and stages amphibious landing craft.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 June 2021
• Much like frogs, who live a life of half-and-half, these fish are amphibious.
  — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2023
• The group said the man was a soldier on board the USS Wasp, an amphibious assault ship.
  — Reuters, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2024
• Ukraine said the vessels hit were two amphibious landing ships, the Yamal and the Azov.
  — Andrew Carey, Maria Kostenko and Josh Pennington, CNN, 24 Mar. 2024
• The sea was also rough and only two of 29 amphibious tanks even made it to shore.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 6 June 2023
• How many small amphibious ships and small supply ships does the Navy need?
  — David Axe, Forbes, 21 June 2021
• The amphibious assault ship burned for more than four days.
  — Arkansas Online, 31 July 2021
• The Russians have 21 ships in the Black Sea 12 of them are surface combatant ships and nine of them are amphibious ships.
  — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 23 Mar. 2022
• The amphibious assault ship USS Bataan was dispatched to ...
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 17 Oct. 2023
• The small but heavy amphibious vehicle that reached speeds of 7 mph on water and 70 mph on land.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2024
• Its flight deck is more in common with the US Navy's amphibious assault ships.
  — Yoonjung Seo and Brad Lendon, CNN, 3 Sep. 2021
• To be better able to retake any islands, the army is tripling its amphibious unit to 2,100 troops.
  — Alastair Gale, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2018
• The amphibious planes skim the surface of lakes or the ocean to fill tanks with more than1,600 gallons of capacity that can be dropped on the flames.
  — Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2020
• In the event of a Chinese amphibious assault, drones could help Taiwan, as well.
  — Mark A. Milley, Foreign Affairs, 5 Aug. 2024
• Jackson didn't know where on the 840-foot amphibious assault vessel the fire was sparked.
  — Fox News, 13 July 2020
• Wallace and Hansen both played on the amphibious force football team there that Bucklew coached.
  — cincinnati.com, 26 May 2022
• The day was the largest amphibious military assault the world had ever seen.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al.com, 6 June 2019
• Rossi boops their snoots with a clicky ballpoint pen, and the fish—which are amphibious, and can survive on land for weeks at a time—backflip out of reach.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 15 June 2021
• 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 amphibious glider can stay afloat, even if the sea is a little choppy (big waves are a problem, though).
  — Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2019
• Still, the amphibious cruiser was at least able to deliver on the second part of that slogan.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 3 June 2022
• The 29-year old USS Rushmore is an amphibious dock landing ship.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2020
• The Black Sea Fleet was poised to attempt an amphibious landing around Odesa.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
• But some Allied landing craft and amphibious tanks sank in swells, and men who stayed afloat were seasick.
  — National Geographic, 3 June 2019
• The Marines use the amphibious assault vehicles to transport troops and their equipment from Navy ships to land.
  — CBS News, 31 July 2020
• The whale was more amphibious and retained functional hind limbs that would have allowed the mammal to stand on land.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2022
• That brings us to his latest amphibious creation, which sports both wheels and duck-foot-like paddles.
  — Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 1 Nov. 2024
• Last year, China launched a new type of amphibious troop carrier, which appears designed for a military assault of the island.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
• The journal Zootaxa announced that a Chel snakehead, also known as Channa amphibious, was rediscovered after it was presumed to be extinct.
  — Raven Brunner, People.com, 24 Feb. 2025