How to Use gunboat in a Sentence

gunboat

noun

• Armed guards in black shirts roam the decks, and gunboats from a navy base in nearby Haifa patrol.
  — Stanley Reed Ofir Berman, New York Times, 27 July 2023
• How the city’s outpouring for the victims of a horrific 1905 gunboat explosion in San Diego Bay helped turn this into a Navy town.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2022
• This story has been corrected to reflect that work to raise and preserve the gunboat is in the proposal stage, not already underway.
  — Wilson Ring, The Seattle Times, 4 June 2017
• In the center of this Mediterranean tableau, at the end of a long quay in the port of Augusta, is a jarring anomaly: a gray Italian gunboat, on whose rear deck hundreds huddle under heavy brown blankets.
  — Alex Perry, Newsweek, 10 June 2015
• The flotilla included an even older ship, a former Russian gunboat named the Politkofsky reduced into a coal barge.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2022
• The former queries were answered, but (the American gunboat’s commander) politely refused to answer the last one.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 26 May 2023
• James Hughes, had taken the precaution of painting large American flags on the gunboat to prevent any mistaken fire.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 26 May 2023
• Gaza fishermen are blocked by Israeli gunboats and forbidden to venture beyond six miles.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2017
• More than two decades after it was discovered at the bottom of Lake Champlain, a Revolutionary War gunboat will be raised, preserved and displayed for the public.
  — Washington Post, 4 June 2017
• Constant fire from river gunboats and land forces made their position untenable.
  — James B. Nelson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2017
• In the 19th century American gunboats forced the Japanese shogunate to open its markets to foreigners.
  — The Economist, 5 Oct. 2017
• The flying gunboats typically engage targets at a range of two miles or more, which implies an ADS far more powerful than System 1 has been developed.
  — David Hambling, WIRED, 5 Dec. 2006
• Not only can Neptune batteries strike farther and harder than any gunboat can do—they’re unsinkable, too. Follow me on Twitter.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
• The Jersey gunboat stunt was necessary because the Garden of Eden promised by Johnson has already become a dense jungle of bureaucratic tedium.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 13 May 2021
• Over the next 18 months, a reasonably effective convoy system was put in place, but more tankers hit mines and were attacked by Iranian gunboats, further elevating tensions.
  — James Stavridis, Time, 25 June 2019
• In 2013, small Navy patrol ships engaged Iranian gunboats at least three times in international waters.
  — Michael S. Schmidt and Helene Cooper, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2016
• The sailors on the gunboats undertook a last-minute mission without proper training or equipment and were captured after straying into the waters surrounding an Iranian naval base on Farsi Island.
  — T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 17 Jan. 2020
• Bolshevik henchmen on the Soviet gunboat Red October seized the islands from American settlers.
  — Thomas Emanuel Dans, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022
• In real history, this is the day that a ragtag group of soldiers pull off one of the most audacious operations of the entire war: sail gunboats into the heart of enemy territory, burn Southern plantations, and rescue all the enslaved people.
  — Rachel Kaufman, Smithsonian, 13 May 2018
• Still, the enviros stand ready to man kayaks, paddleboards and gunboats to defend our offshore treasures, particularly given the president’s call to review marine sanctuaries.
  — Steve Lopez, latimes.com, 20 May 2017
• More than 100 cruise missiles, launched from warplanes and gunboats, struck three Syrian facilities: a scientific research centre used to produce chemical weapons near the capital of Damascus and two military bases further north.
  — The Economist, 14 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024