How to Use mother ship in a Sentence

mother ship

noun

• So are boat hunts based in a mother ship with smaller craft used to reach shore.
  — Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 2 Apr. 2020
• 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
• The Titan’s mother ship, the Polar Prince, is based in Canada.
  — Patrick Whittle, Anchorage Daily News, 29 June 2023
• 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
• And this is bubbling over to the mother ship known as Keeping Up With the Kardashians.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 9 Feb. 2018
• Or call the mother ship overhead and put in an order for its 3D printer.
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], al, 26 Jan. 2023
• Also, the mother ship is calling you back to your host planet.
  — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 July 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Meanwhile, the Titan’s mother ship, the Polar Prince, was from Canada.
  — Patrick Whittle, Fortune, 28 June 2023
• 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
• Startups backed by Alexa Fund get special access to the Amazon mother ship.
  — Patience Haggin, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The mother ship has two fuselages, side by side, and SpaceShipTwo was nestled between them.
  — Anna Russel, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
• 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
• 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
• Roberts, Stantec’s team drew other visual connections with the mother ship across Clark.
  — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• What about actually digging into the asteroid or kicking up rock for the mother ship to recover?
  — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024