warship

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Recent Examples of warship Or take the trip across the Oakland Bay Bridge to the USS Hornet Sea, Air & Space Museum; every Independence Day, the retired warship hosts a Fourth of July BBQ on its flight deck. Chloe Arrojado, AFAR Media, 5 May 2025 See photos April 21, 2025 7:45 AM Read Next National Massive WWII mural found intact on wall of US warship sunk in 1942, NOAA says April 22, 2025 2:10 PM This story was originally published April 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM. Mark Price, Miami Herald, 28 Apr. 2025 Anti-aircraft missiles and navy warships are on stand-by. Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025 The naval motif continues into the entranceway, where a mural depicts a fleet of warships returning to dock. Laura May Todd, Architectural Digest, 23 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for warship
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Noun
  • The breakthrough came soon after, with a roving assignment aboard the Quaker City, a steamship bound for Palestine.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
  • The Carpathia, the steamship that raced to the site of the disaster, picked up just over 700 survivors from the Titanic’s too-few and too sparsely filled lifeboats.
    Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • That was the day a freighter called the Summit Venture hit the southbound span of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 May 2025
  • The report said that air carriers including Air China, China Cargo Airline and China Southern Airlines are among those planning to cancel freighter services between China and the U.S.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • Before boarding the barge in Inverness, travelers can visit Culloden Moor, the scene of the famous 1746 battle, a pivotal moment in Outlander and Clava Cairns, the burial site of a prehistoric clan chieftain, widely believed to have inspired the standing stones of Craigh na Dun in the series.
    Emese Maczko, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Usually accommodating 6 to 12 passengers, the barges can navigate canals dating back to the early 1600s.
    Jeri Clausing, AFAR Media, 10 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Sure enough, Spenser’s workers had quickly filled a tanker with keys and keys of coke, and Henry and Garza were set to provide a police escort.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Meanwhile, given Boeing’s dismal record of performance problems and cost overruns on both civilian airliners and defense systems like the Osprey aircraft and the KC-46 refueling tanker, accelerating spending on the company’s new F-47 combat aircraft program is not prudent.
    William Hartung, Forbes.com, 26 Apr. 2025
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
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
  • The ship will launch in late 2026 and be the first-ever vessel in the line's new Prestige class.
    Chrissie McClatchie, Travel + Leisure, 8 May 2025
  • Sky News reported that the victim was a member of a bachelor party onboard the ship.
    Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • What To Know In early February, the Russian navy dispatched two corvettes, the Rezky and the Hero of the Russian Federation Aldar Tsydenzhapov, as well as the fleet oiler Pechenga, from their Far Eastern naval base in the city of Vladivostok for a deployment in the Asia-Pacific region.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Apr. 2025
  • The 388-foot-long corvette has a range of 4,500 nautical miles [5,178 miles] with a speed of up to 25 knots [28 miles per hour].
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025

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