How to Use mother ship in a Sentence
mother ship
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So are boat hunts based in a mother ship with smaller craft used to reach shore.
—Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 2 Apr. 2020
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Then as the sun peaked over the bay, Wait powered up and motored the mother ship about 600 yards away and idled it near shore.
—Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2021
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The Titan’s mother ship, the Polar Prince, is based in Canada.
—Patrick Whittle, Anchorage Daily News, 29 June 2023
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Here was the makings of a mother ship that could haul both parts and ass in company with 150-mph Corvettes.
—Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 3 Feb. 2023
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And this is bubbling over to the mother ship known as Keeping Up With the Kardashians.
—Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 9 Feb. 2018
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Or call the mother ship overhead and put in an order for its 3D printer.
—Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 26 Jan. 2023
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Also, the mother ship is calling you back to your host planet.
—Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 July 2018
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The fishermen would lower long lines laden with hooks, pull up the catch, and row or sail the dory back to the mother ship to unload it.
—Billy Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2019
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The space plane then detached from the mother ship at an altitude of about 8 1/2 miles and fired its engine, reaching the edge of space.
—Susan Montoya Bryan and Marcia Dunn, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2021
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Lynfred has four locations in the suburbs, but the mother ship is in Roselle, a half-mile stroll from the Metra station.
—Lori Rackl, chicagotribune.com, 29 June 2018
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That energy has kept a steady tide of fans ditching their careers for a chance to join the mother ship; to touch the magic for themselves.
—Luke Winkie, Wired, 27 Feb. 2021
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Meanwhile, the Titan’s mother ship, the Polar Prince, was from Canada.
—Patrick Whittle, Fortune, 28 June 2023
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The sub lost contact with its mother ship an hour and 45 minutes into the two-hour descent to the wreck, prompting a massive, days-long search.
—Harold Maass, The Week, 23 June 2023
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Startups backed by Alexa Fund get special access to the Amazon mother ship.
—Patience Haggin, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2017
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On Sunday, the mother ship, known as WhiteKnightTwo, lifted off from the tarmac here shortly after 10:30 a.m.
—Washington Post, 11 July 2021
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Then one day, the mother ship beams a message down to all the little red-eyed fellas below ground, telling them it’s time to stop partying and get to work.
—Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 4 June 2021
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First the layout boat was anchored in place and Peikert carefully stepped from the mother ship into the floating blind.
—Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2021
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Collins, who orbited the moon in the mother ship while his crewmates were on the surface, was keenly aware that failure was an option.
—Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2019
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In response, a tiny drone zips off its mother ship to the rescue, zooming behind the enemy soldiers and killing them with ease.
—Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
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The mother ship has two fuselages, side by side, and SpaceShipTwo was nestled between them.
—Anna Russel, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
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Brooklyn was the mother ship and the Dodgers were the good guys, doing the right thing, signing black players and repeatedly reaching the World Series.
—George Vecsey, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2017
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Hotels are planned nearby, to cater to workers and suppliers paying a visit to the mother ship.
—Wendy Lee, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2018
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Roberts, Stantec’s team drew other visual connections with the mother ship across Clark.
—Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2018
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Once the mission is completed, the micro drones land or swim inside Proteus and are transported the long distance back to their mother ship.
—Allison Barrie, Fox News, 7 June 2018
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Unlike the drone, this one was steered manually from the mother ship, and had high-definition cameras.
—John Ismay, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2019
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Congress came back to the Washington mother ship this week, and the buzz was that the Democrats will move heaven and earth to give the American public a reason to vote for them in November’s midterm elections.
—Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2022
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An overture of swooping, darting neon heralds the arrival of a mother ship that looks like a cross between a cathedral and a cosmic chandelier.
—Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2017
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Any person, regardless of race or gender, might work from their Baltimore home three or three and a half weeks a month, but go to the mother ship for face-to-face interactions.
—Michael B. Arthur, Forbes, 24 Apr. 2022
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The self-driving team is still housed in the mother ship, though, alongside the employees working on delivery drones and internet balloons.
—Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 9 May 2018
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His film has few of the usual business drama tropes like blood-and-guts confrontations between colorful executives scheming behind the scenes and putting the sword to rivals as the mother ship goes down.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2023
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