Examples of spaceship in a Sentence
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The spaceship soared over the Gulf Coast, with all 33 engines in the rocket booster pulsing.
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Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 18 Nov. 2023
Advertisement The Hawthorne company has added a new, hot-stage separation system into the rocket, in which the rocket booster keeps a few engines burning while the spaceship ignites all of its engines to get more boost.
—Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2023
SpaceX has plenty of experience with this technology in docking its Dragon spaceships to the International Space Station.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2023
Surely technology is available in a country that has sent a spaceship to the Moon and is becoming a global hub for high-tech manufacturing.
—Nives Dolsak and Aseem Prakash, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
The person would describe being taken into an alien spaceship, then dimly waking up, in a groggy half-consciousness, as they were being tinkered with in some ominous alien lab experiment.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 31 Oct. 2023
Stone floors and one of those wood stoves that looks like a spaceship.
—Curbed Staff, Curbed, 17 Nov. 2023
The stated purpose of Beacon 23 is to keep spaceships safe by steering them away from dark matter.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Nov. 2023
It’s designed to feel like a spaceship, but instead of traveling to the cosmos, visitors are transported back in time.
—Anna Tingley, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
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Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 18 Nov. 2023
Advertisement The Hawthorne company has added a new, hot-stage separation system into the rocket, in which the rocket booster keeps a few engines burning while the spaceship ignites all of its engines to get more boost.
—Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2023
SpaceX has plenty of experience with this technology in docking its Dragon spaceships to the International Space Station.
—Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2023
Surely technology is available in a country that has sent a spaceship to the Moon and is becoming a global hub for high-tech manufacturing.
—Nives Dolsak and Aseem Prakash, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
The person would describe being taken into an alien spaceship, then dimly waking up, in a groggy half-consciousness, as they were being tinkered with in some ominous alien lab experiment.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 31 Oct. 2023
Stone floors and one of those wood stoves that looks like a spaceship.
—Curbed Staff, Curbed, 17 Nov. 2023
The stated purpose of Beacon 23 is to keep spaceships safe by steering them away from dark matter.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Nov. 2023
It’s designed to feel like a spaceship, but instead of traveling to the cosmos, visitors are transported back in time.
—Anna Tingley, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
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First Known Use
1880, in the meaning defined above
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“Spaceship.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spaceship. Accessed 5 Dec. 2023.
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spaceship
noun
space·ship
ˈspās-ˌship 
ˈspāsh-
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