How to Use container ship in a Sentence

container ship

noun

• And a container ship stuck in the Chesapeake Bay for more than a month has been freed.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2022
• What else has started off on a container ship and wound up in the ocean?
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
• Among the last, Rockman paints a container ship and a Cuban refugee raft.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
• The container ship that had an extended stay in the Suez Canal is now free.
  — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 29 Mar. 2021
• At the time of its construction the Emma Maersk was the largest container ship in the world.
  — Katherine Ott, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2023
• And then it gets put on a container ship, goes to an importer and a table gets made.
  — Jamie Hailstone, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021
• And weighs on the franchise like an anchor on a container ship.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 22 Sep. 2017
• The container ship blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week in March before being dislodged from the banks of the canal.
  — Benoit Faucon, WSJ, 23 June 2021
• There is a sly reference to the name of the container ship in the form of the face of mustachioed artist Salvador Dali.
  — Amy Davis, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2024
• In most cases, the arrival of a container ship in a port isn’t the result of short-term planning.
  — al, 20 Jan. 2023
• Not the one Tuesday that grounded a massive container ship in front of this tiny hamlet on the edge of the Suez Canal.
  — Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2021
• Much of Alaska's food comes up by container ship over the water.
  — Annie Zak, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2018
• Then the 985-foot container ship Dali slammed into one of the bridge’s support pillars.
  — Hau Chu, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
• Stuck since Tuesday, the container ship has become a parable of the risks of megaships.
  — David Clark Scott, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2021
• This week’s trivia question: When did the first container ship sail through the Golden Gate?
  — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 12 July 2019
• As for drugs, the Coast Guard says 95 percent of them arrive in container ships or other boats.
  — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• The quest started late because a container ship came through.
  — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
• Last year, Cosco’s first electric container ship set sail from Yangzhou port.
  — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 June 2024
• By the way, what’s the air quality - container ship thing about anyhow?
  — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
• Remember that giant container ship that got jammed in the Suez Canal in March?
  — Jon Dwoskin, Forbes, 25 May 2021
• On Tuesday, the Houthis struck another container ship—and the U.S. fired at four more sites where missiles were about to be fired.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2024
• Last year, as land borders were closed to nonessential goods, the tree traveled by container ship.
  — Emily D'alessandro, CBS News, 25 Dec. 2021
• Zhang agreed and arranged to send the shipment from Qingdao via container ship, at a price of $3,000 per kilogram.
  — Alex W. Palmer, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2019
• Seven people died when the Fitzgerald struck a container ship back in June.
  — Kayla Turnbow, Houston Chronicle, 5 May 2018
• There are stories of the sailboat that collided with a container ship unseen in the fog.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• Philly Shipyard is building up to four new container ships to transport goods between the West Coast and Hawaii.
  — Linda Loyd, Philly.com, 25 Sep. 2017
• The state imports nearly all of its food, mostly on container ships.
  — Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Feb. 2018
• Dredging crews are moving massive amounts of sand to free a skyscraper-size container ship stuck in the Suez Canal, one of the world’s busiest shipping routes.
  — USA Today, 26 Mar. 2021
• The blaze occurred around 9:30 a.m. near a container ship at the Gloucester City Terminal.
  — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 21 May 2024
• The next month, a giant container ship got stuck in the Suez Canal, blocking one of the world’s main commercial arteries for six days.
  — Washington Post, 26 July 2021

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024