Examples of freighter in a Sentence
Lawrence Richard, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2024
Sidney Lanier Bridge An 11,000-ton freighter called the African Neptune crashed into a drawbridge over the Brunswick River in coastal southeast Georgia, destroying a 450-foot section of the bridge.
—Aaron Gregg, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2024
More:After 100 years, shipwreck hunters find steel freighter Huronton at bottom of Lake Superior
After discovering the vessel in June 2023, researchers spent the rest of the summer trying to film and accurately identify the wreck.
—Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 26 Mar. 2024
The disaster is in some ways similar to the deadly collapse of Florida’s Sunshine Skyway Bridge, which was was struck by a freighter in Tampa Bay in 1980.
—Ben Finley and Brian Witte, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
But the secretary noted that many bridges have been designed to better protect against collisions since a freighter struck Florida’s Sunshine Skyway Bridge in 1980, killing 35 people.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2024
Bruce Atkins, a member of the freighter’s crew, later told NPR that the storm came out of nowhere.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
After the collapse, the freighter remained stuck beneath the bridge, with part of the roadway on its bow.
—Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
After a freighter hit the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Tampa Bay, Florida, in 1980, causing a collapse that was tied to 35 fatalities, safety engineers became far more focused on protecting the structures above navigable waters.
—Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Mar. 2024
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1622, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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