steamship

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Recent Examples of steamship More-efficient steam engines were deployed in new factories, trains and steamships. Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 4 Feb. 2025 All of the luggage is made by hand, which gives it an authentic, almost gritty feel that reminds you of a bygone era when passengers boarded steamships with large trunks and fashionable leather bags. Christopher Elliott, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024 The loss of the steamship Pacific on November 4, 1875, left the community of Victoria, British Columbia, in shock. Joel Sams, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2025 This new Chicago production produced in partnership with Porchlight Music Theatre is expected to play for several weeks and is directed by the original director, Tye Blue — but with an all-Chicago cast playing Rose, Jack and the crew of the doomed steamship. Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for steamship
Recent Examples of Synonyms for steamship
Noun
  • Many of these come with steamers or colanders for draining pasta water.
    BestReviews, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2025
  • The steamer has yet to confirm a release date for KPopped.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 5 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Last winter, after a Navy MH-60R Sea Hawk crashed into the bay, the helicopter was lifted from 15 feet of water and stabilized on a barge.
    Kristina Davis, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The top to-do item for Blue Origin is flying New Glenn again—and recovering the giant rocket's first stage by landing it on an autonomous landing barge (named Jacklyn for Bezos' mother).
    Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 12 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The thick ice even temporarily stranded a Canadian cargo freighter.
    Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
  • To counter this, construction magnate turned shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser proposed to the US government the building of a new class of seaplane bigger than anything previously conceived that would essentially be an airborne freighter.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 25 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Maritime Museum of San Diego seeks volunteers The nonprofit Maritime Museum of San Diego starts the next Docent Volunteer Training Program for newcomers Jan. 21 at the museum on the upper deck of the ferryboat Berkeley.
    Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Jan. 2025
  • For example, when over 1,000 people died in a ferryboat accident in the Red Sea in 2006, critics accused the military of failing to deploy quickly enough to rescue them.
    Jeff Martini, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2011
Noun
  • As recently as the 1990s, the United Nations embargo on Iraq relied on warships patrolling the Persian Gulf.
    Edward Fishman, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2025
  • The prohibition against women serving on warships ended in 1993, opening the door for officers like Admiral Franchetti to compete equally with their male counterparts.
    John Ismay, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Chambers says oral history, passed on by Koh Samui locals, states the tanker was torpedoed by a submarine.
    Ronan O'Connell, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2025
  • All tanker vessels will need to comply to reduce emissions in California ports by the beginning of 2027.
    Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • These preyed upon American merchantmen who either payed tribute or showed forged British passes.
    Thomas Wendel, National Review, 4 July 2019
  • The Navy already has ships in the fleet that are former merchantmen.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2019
Noun
  • Nassau had no men-of-war ships, and Trott’s stone fort was still a building site.
    Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
  • My hundred-and-forty-foot man-of-war sought to make the first mission to the South Pole, a feat that would bring pride to England.
    Mike O’Brien, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023

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“Steamship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steamship. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.

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