How to Use gunship in a Sentence

gunship

noun

• The gunship crew heard panic on the other line and got to work.
  — Brett Murphy, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2019
• In fact, there were gunships headed in, ready to hose it down.
  — Matthew M. Burke, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2017
• The airstrikes were carried out by drones, AC-130 gunships and fighter-bombers.
  — Robert Windrem, NBC News, 1 Feb. 2018
• When a firefight broke out, the U.S. commandos called in airstrikes from an AC-130 gunship.
  — W.j. Hennigan, latimes.com, 25 May 2017
• The gunship fired, and villagers began falling right and left.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
• The other was a gunship ready to take anybody who tried to approach the embassy under fire.
  — CBS News, 23 Apr. 2023
• In response, Afghan helicopter gunships bombed the house from which the rockets were believed to have been launched.
  — Fox News, 21 Aug. 2018
• In a nearby village, a gunship struck down three children.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
• Abdul Rahman, a farmer, was rooting through the refuse with his young son when an Afghan Army gunship appeared on the horizon.
  — Anand Gopal, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
• This summer Philippine forces used U.S.-supplied gunships to attack the Islamist groups.
  — Robert Windrem, NBC News, 12 Sep. 2017
• Flying them out seemed to be the only option, but there was a problem: his Cobra gunship had no room inside.
  — Matt Seyler, ABC News, 1 Sep. 2023
• So an AC-130 gunship fitted with cannons and machine guns opened fire, smashing the convoy.
  — David Axe, WIRED, 13 Aug. 2012
• During the Vietnam War, he was assigned to a gunship and participated in more than 200 missions, most of them at night.
  — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2017
• And on its high-speed setting, the rear ventilation blower, mounted on the headliner just aft of the front seats, sounds like a Huey gunship on takeoff.
  — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 28 Nov. 2022
• Since the 1950s, the planes have hauled massive cargo loads to war zones, been converted into gunships and bombers, and been packed with electronics to hunt for hurricanes.
  — Avi Selk, Washington Post, 3 May 2018
• Yellow triangles, gunships like hers, blinked out en masse.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 11 June 2019
• But the Taliban appeared to have seized large parts of the city and held them despite a blistering assault by Afghan troops backed by U.S. helicopter gunships, fighter jets and drones.
  — Fox News, 12 Aug. 2018
• Apache helicopter gunships were called in to repel the attackers, said the officials.
  — Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2017
• But Ahsoka catches him with the Force, and the clone troopers under her and Rex’s command take the red-and-black crime lord prisoner aboard a Republic gunship.
  — Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2020
• Ada’s gunship fleet was in LPO, awaiting detection of the advancing Icar- ion fleet, when the asteroid passed within range.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 11 June 2019
• The military brought in these helicopter gunships, and soldiers came and started burning the villages and killing people, driving all the Rohingya into the forests and the woods and over the border.
  — Jen Kirby, Daily Intelligencer, 15 Sep. 2017
• Al-Mayadeen said the airstrike occurred after the Popular Forces hit a Turkish helicopter gunship.
  — Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2018
• The United States military made a show of force in response to the turmoil, with helicopter gunships circling overhead.
  — Falih Hassan, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2019
• The wedding, her first and his second, marked a fresh start for Williams, who was shot down south of Baghdad on the fourth day of the Iraq war along with another Apache gunship pilot and taken prisoner.
  — San Antonio Express-News, 21 Mar. 2018
• Transport choppers hauled troops to battle while heavy-lift helicopters delivered their artillery and gunships cleared the path.
  — Tom Roeder, The Denver Post, 5 May 2017
• The gunship crew tracked the attackers in their vehicle and struck back, killing several of them, according to U.S. officials.
  — Matt Seyler, ABC News, 21 Nov. 2023
• These can be used either for transport or in a gunship configuration.
  — Patrick Galey, NBC News, 29 Apr. 2022
• An American gunship was circling over the city, firing off shimmering flares.
  — New York Times, 10 Dec. 2021
• Videos taken from the shaky cellphone cameras of frightened neighbors show a U.S.-supplied Blackhawk helicopter gunship hovering in the night sky.
  — Tim Golden, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2022
• Intelligence suggested that the vessel would be converted into a gunship for use against the Jews.
  — Ronen Bergman, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2021

Last Updated: 20 Sep 2024