How to Use battleship in a Sentence

battleship

noun

• Among them was the battleship Arizona, which went down with 1,177 crew members.
  — Orange County Register, 29 Jan. 2017
• Mitchell embarrassed the US Navy by sinking ships with bombers, proving the vulnerability of the battleship.
  — Phil Patton, WIRED, 1 Mar. 1996
• The death knell for the battleship age came on the day that will live in infamy.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 Nov. 2018
• When the ship had cooled, he was assigned to dive and pull bodies out of the battleship.
  — Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 2 Apr. 2024
• And Halsey wanted this flag present for the solemn event, which would be held on the battleship in Tokyo Bay.
  — Michael E. Ruane Washington Post, Star Tribune, 10 Sep. 2020
• At the same time, Emmert’s removal on its own will not be the event that turns the battleship around.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 27 Apr. 2022
• The home was just about 1 mile across the harbor from where the USS Arizona was moored on battleship row.
  — Arkansas Online, 8 Dec. 2022
• The home was just about one mile across the harbor from where the USS Arizona was moored on battleship row.
  — Audrey McAvoy, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2022
• With This The U.S. military brought this battleship back from the dead for one more war...
  — NBC News, 13 June 2017
• Just off the shore, Navy battleships stood guard in the English Channel.
  — Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 6 June 2024
• Across the Channel in the English port of Dover, the skies Saturday were the same battleship gray, the sea state queasy with chop.
  — Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2021
• Some of the postcards are almost blank, and were issued on the battleship.
  — Ben Hohenstatt, The Seattle Times, 20 Apr. 2018
• More than 100 of his shipmates aboard the battleship died in the attack that shoved the United States into the war.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Aug. 2021
• There are no chest-busters here, dripping saliva that can pit the plates of a battleship.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
• Of those, 1,177 were those serving on the battleship USS Arizona, which was moored in the harbor.
  — Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2022
• Garcia said the parking lot will be used as part of the repair and restoration project for the battleship.
  — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 12 Aug. 2019
• The next year, with Britain at war, the 19-year-old Philip went to sea as a sublieutenant aboard the battleship Ramillies in the Mediterranean fleet.
  — New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
• Unlike the guns of a battleship, these tubes must be aimed at the mark by aiming the entire vessel.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 8 Apr. 2021
• The battleship’s wrecked hull was left in place and now is the site of a national memorial.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Dec. 2021
• After the wreath was placed, the Trumps tossed white flower petals into the waters above the battleship's sunken hull.
  — CBS News, 4 Nov. 2017
• The photo of the battleship surface action group dates to 1986.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 July 2021
• The best way to get around with heavy payload through the oceans is using huge battleships with large engines.
  — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 22 July 2024
• The range difference doomed battleships, which went from being the hunters to the hunted.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 Nov. 2018
• The United States didn’t have a ship that fast, so the Navy upgraded a new class of battleships to exceed that speed.
  — Liza Mundy, Slate Magazine, 10 Oct. 2017
• The land brimmed with debris left by the Russians — bags of bullets, vials of painkillers, a game of battleship made of paper and blue pen.
  — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2024
• Gregory Peck and William Holden look fit on the bridge of a battleship.
  — Steven Kotler, Variety, 28 Oct. 2021
• As a child, Michael spent his free time whittling battleships.
  — Marina Starleaf Riker, ExpressNews.com, 31 Dec. 2019
• This has all the hallmarks of a World War II mission, where battleships could disrupt shipping and turn the tide of war.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2017
• The bombing of the Arizona left 1,177 crew members dead, the greatest loss of life on a U.S. battleship, according to the Navy.
  — Heidi Chang, latimes.com, 3 July 2018
• There is a lot of anxiety in the region, and once again, the U.S. is in a position with battleships, caches of arms, and advisers to serve as deterrence to fend off a major attack.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 10 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024