How to Use merchant ship in a Sentence

merchant ship

noun

• About 3,500 merchant ships went down in the Atlantic over the course of the war.
  — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, 11 June 2018
• In May, the U.S. said, Iran seized two merchant ships within one week.
  — Matt Seyler, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2023
• Divers have been attempting to locate the merchant ship since the 1970s.
  — Fox News, 23 June 2020
• In May, Iran seized two merchant ships within one week.
  — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2023
• Hundreds of merchant ships docked within sight of the plazas, the air rang with the sound of church bells and cockfights, and the streets teemed with smugglers.
  — Néstor Martí, Smithsonian, 18 Apr. 2018
• He was rescued by a merchant ship more than 2,000 miles southeast of Hawaii.
  — María Verza, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 July 2023
• Later in the day on June 13, a merchant ship supplied the fishing boat with food and supplies.
  — Isabelle Butera, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
• Rome then requested merchant ships in the area to join the rescue efforts.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 13 Mar. 2023
• The city has been trying to rid itself of the rodent, which came to New York on merchant ships, for at least two centuries.
  — Joseph Pisani, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2023
• The merchant ship Waimarama fell victim to a fate common to most of the civilian vessels.
  — Jonathan W. Jordan, WSJ, 11 June 2021
• By the time merchant ships arrived in Canton (the port known today as Guangzhou) in the winter, the Chinese had already drunk the best of their wares.
  — Charlene Wang De Chen, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2023
• The survivors floated on inner tubes until a merchant ship found them and took them to the island this week.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 9 Aug. 2023
• And in the midst of all this, a merchant ship laden with ceramics and luxury goods went down off the coast of Indonesia.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 16 May 2018
• Over the radio, the remarks made by the captain of the suspect merchant ship do not coincide with his course tracked by radar.
  — Jim Wilson, Popular Mechanics, 22 Apr. 2021
• The request, which the Panther was required to honor, was at least the third time that day, Jan. 11, that the Libyans had called on a merchant ship to assist migrants.
  — New York Times, 20 Mar. 2020
• In the end, Rose notes, compared to the success of the naval blockade, the attacks on Union merchant ships amounted to little more than a nuisance.
  — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Mar. 2023
• The average size was around 80 men, many more than the usual crew of a merchant ship, which often counted no more than 20.
  — National Geographic, 2 July 2020
• The wooden fishing boats that crisscross the bay now weave around massive merchant ships loaded with iron and steel.
  — Photographs and Text By Dado Galdieri, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2018
• Five merchant ships were involved in the rescue of the Sincerity Ace’s sailors.
  — Costas Paris, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2019
• Franklin was talking to his cousin, Timothy Folger, who was the captain of a merchant ship.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• In 1801, Paine opined that merchant ships crossing the embattled Atlantic should fly rainbow flags as a sign of peace.
  — Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2018
• At least four merchant ships, six coast guard ships and a helicopter were searching for survivors amid calm seas.
  — Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2020
• The crew abandoned ship at 0830 and an hour later were hauled aboard an armed merchant ship, which took them to Penang, a major port town on the Malayan Peninsula.
  — CBS News, 16 Sep. 2020
• He was saved by a merchant ship, taken to Thailand as a refugee, then came to Philadelphia.
  — Jeff Gammage, Philly.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• After the first alert, a Frontex aircraft and two merchant ships spotted the boat sailing north, according to the Greek coast guard.
  — Kate Perez, USA TODAY, 14 June 2023
• More than 1,000 merchant ships escorted by U.S., British and Canadian naval ships took part in the convoys.
  — Gene Sloan, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2017
• Growing tensions with the Spanish Empire would soon would lead to war, and the English needed cannon to arm their merchant ships and navy.
  — Andrew Lawler, Smithsonian, 21 Sep. 2019
• The wreck of a merchant ship that vanished in the Bermuda Triangle in 1925 is revealing its secrets.
  — Fox News, 7 Feb. 2020
• In the early first century A.D., before trade reached its peak, the Greek geographer Strabo described eastbound fleets of more than 100 merchant ships.
  — Jo Marchant, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2024
• Some troops traveled by passenger ship, in relative comfort, but most sailed on merchant ships that the Soviets had assigned to the operation.
  — Sergey Radchenko, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024