How to Use starship in a Sentence

starship

noun

• The name refers to the starship in the Star Wars movie series.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2018
• The ceiling of the movie theater resembles the view from the cockpit of a TIE Fighter, a starship.
  — Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2020
• Of course this speed will change based on the assumption of the distance between starships.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 11 May 2018
• As usual, a starship is plying the far reaches of space.
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 17 May 2017
• The space had the distinct air of the bridge of the starship Enterprise, except with only a couple of staffers and Javie aboard.
  — New York Times, 20 May 2022
• Sitting in the driver's seat is like being on the bridge of the starship Enterprise.
  — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 28 Nov. 2022
• That would make this fleeing starship look like a naval battle on Earth.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 11 May 2018
• In the third episode, a bunch of people finally get together on the bridge of a starship.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2020
• The 10-episode series is a spinoff of Star Trek: Discovery‘s second season and explores the starship’s pre-Kirk era.
  — Danielle Directo-Meston, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 May 2022
• The fame he’s achieved by playing a starship captain has come with other perks.
  — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2023
• Her only job on the starship is to take orders and repeat them to the computer.
  — Wired, 20 Nov. 2019
• What are the diameter and depth of the saucer of the starship Enterprise model?
  — Katie Nodjimbadem, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017
• What are the diameter and depth of the saucer of the starship Enterprise model?
  — Katie Nodjimbadem, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• But those events are more than a decade gone in Picard, and life in the Burgundy countryside is a far cry from life aboard a starship.
  — Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2020
• Then the ship seems to split in two, Stamets freaks out, and Discovery arrives in the middle of a starship debris field in unknown space.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2017
• Instead, the orbiter was called Enterprise, like the TV show's starship.
  — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 15 Sep. 2021
• We were informed the McDonalds will try to tear down the Starship starting today.
  — Tom Uhler, star-telegram.com, 4 May 2017
• And another chance for them to be reunited on a starship?
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 9 Feb. 2023
• When the starship makes the jump to hyperspace, R2 goes flying backwards inside the Falcon.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 4 May 2021
• Amy herself was expected to ascend in a starship — or, perhaps, through a portal in the ocean.
  — Christopher Moyer, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2021
• Why did Vader need their help when a starship, a ganking Dreadnought full of toy soldiers, couldn’t do the job Boba Fett could do?
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2020
• With the bombardment of buttons and switches, the cabin is more starship than flagship.
  — Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• To Hein, launching Project Lyra would be akin to building humanity’s first starship — and doing it on the cheap.
  — NBC News, 17 Oct. 2019
• The latest is Record of a Spaceborn Few, which follows the descendants of the last flotilla of starships to depart Earth, who have clung to their way of life aboard the aging fleet.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 21 Dec. 2018
• Once the scrapyard workers have been dealt with, the crew of clones heads back inside the starship to gather valuable salvage to sell off back at Ord Mantell.
  — Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 18 June 2021
• First, there is the backwards-pushing force that's parallel to the ground—this is due to the forward acceleration of the starship.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 4 May 2021
• Maybe the one starting to move into a $5 billion headquarters building that looks like a cross between a starship and a Bundt cake?
  — Kevin Maney, Newsweek, 30 May 2017
• What if a starship could compress space in front of it while expanding spacetime behind it?
  — Mario Borunda, The Conversation, 23 Apr. 2021
• The company designed its control room in Houston to resemble the bridge of the starship Enterprise from Star Trek.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Feb. 2024
• In particular, the bounty hunter’s starship—the microfighter—is a fan favorite.
  — Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 4 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Aug 2024