How to Use littoral in a Sentence

littoral

adjective

• Paul is the 21st littoral (nearshore) combat ship in the Navy's fleet.
  — Brooks Johnson, Star Tribune, 1 Feb. 2021
• The USS Billings, a brand-new littoral combat ship, now has a brand-new ding in her hull.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 June 2019
• That could bode ill for many, not least Taiwan and the littoral states of the South China Sea.
  — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2021
• As one of the littoral states on the Black Sea, Russia can claim the movement of ships through the area is to return to their home naval base.
  — NBC News, 19 Mar. 2022
• NuGlove is also used to train troops on how to turn the valves and find their way around the littoral combat ships used by the U.S. Navy.
  — Allison Keyes, Smithsonian, 25 May 2017
• The frigates are meant to augment—and likely at some point replace—a force of 32 littoral combat ships (LCS).
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 Jan. 2022
• This zigzag pattern of sand movement is called littoral drift.
  — Teresa L. Carey, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2017
• The Navy’s littoral combat ship and Zumwalt-class destroyers were meant to provide support to land forces.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2022
• The yard will soon add the destroyer Russell and the littoral combat ship Manchester.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 June 2021
• The Navy’s speedy littoral combat ships had propulsion failures.
  — Fox News, 24 May 2021
• In addition to issues with the littoral combat ship, the service cut the number of Zumwalt-class destroyers from 32 to 3, and failed to design and fund a new class of cruiser.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 May 2023
• The Navy’s newest littoral combat ship, the Gabrielle Giffords, is slated to open its hatches to the public this weekend — with a few rules to keep visitors safe.
  — Carl Prine, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 July 2017
• Land and sea meet in a dance of littoral literature on this week’s episode, in which two writers train their minds on overlooked expanses.
  — Harper's Magazine, 6 Aug. 2021
• The Navy currently fields 17 Virginia-class fast attack submarines, which are built to operate in the world's littoral and deep waters.
  — Zachary Cohen, CNN, 26 Oct. 2017
• After a brief tour of the littoral combat ship Gabrielle Giffords alongside its skipper, Cmdr.
  — Carl Prine, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 Aug. 2017
• The Freedom class of littoral combat ships were built by Lockheed Martin in Wisconsin.
  — Cassidy Jensen, Baltimore Sun, 11 Sep. 2022
• The fate of the Freedom-class littoral-combat ship, plagued by cost overruns and limited utility, now rests with Congress.
  — Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 31 Aug. 2022
• The test was part of an effort to prove the ability of littoral combat ships to defend themselves and to attack enemy targets.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2023
• Fringing the Atlantic Ocean, this wild littoral moves inland from interlocking inlets and islands to a maze of lakes, peat bogs, and stark mountains.
  — Colin Thubron, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2020
• That means the Russians almost certainly can’t open a littoral front along Ukraine’s western coastline in order to stage an assault on the strategic port of Odessa, Ukraine’s main gateway to the sea.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 2 May 2022
• However, the littoral combat ships that are targeted are young.
  — David Sharp, ajc, 7 Apr. 2022
• Jordy Harrison, flotilla commander of the littoral combat ships in San Diego.
  — Elizabeth Marie Himchak and Steve Dreyer, Pomerado News, 25 May 2017
• The roughly $500 million Augusta was designed to operate at high speeds in near-shore, or littoral waters, and do such things as find sea mines and track submarines.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2023
• But to make the ships work, crews selected for the littoral combat fleet needed to perform multiple jobs, putting a premium on training.
  — Carl Prine, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 Sep. 2017
• Trump's budget calls for the building of one littoral combat ship - a vessel constructed in Mobile shipyard.
  — Howard Koplowitz, AL.com, 25 May 2017
• The littoral combat ship class is just one of several troubled warship classes that originated in the late 2000s.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 May 2022
• The littoral Marines may serve as spotters who pass along the position of enemy forces to American warplanes, ships or submarines to attack.
  — John Ismay, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2023
• The Navy will open its checkbook for 13 more littoral combat ships for a total of 35, including the ones bound for early decommissioning.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2021
• The littoral combat ship fleet consists of two classes, the Independence and Freedom classes.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 13 May 2022
• Some of it migrates toward other beaches in part of a complex phenomenon known as littoral drift.
  — Jill Cowan, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2023

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