steamship

noun

steam·ship ˈstēm-ˌship

Synonyms of steamship next

: steamer sense 2a

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Tucked among the waterfront mansions on affluent Mercer Island sits the circa-1906 steamship Manzanita, jutting out of a hillside as if she’s run aground. —

Candace Taylor, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2020 The eight-episode series debuted on Netflix on Nov. 17, 2022 and centered on the journey of a migrant steamship headed west. —

Lexy Perez, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Jan. 2023 High winds blew two railroad baggage cars off the deck of a steamship and into the Gulf of Alaska. —

David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Dec. 2022 Timothy Meaher was the steamship owner who financed and brought 110 Africans from Benin to Mobile follow a harrowing journey aboard the Clotilda more than 110 years ago, many years after the nation banned the importation of slave. —

al, 12 Dec. 2022 Originally, the deep-sea hunters who started searching for the pre-Civil War steamship in the 1980s had their eye on the same prize usually found in pirate chests. —

CBS News, 1 Dec. 2022 People came here after the General Slocum steamship burned on the East River in 1904; so many locals were lost. —

Laurie Gwen Shapiro, Curbed, 22 Nov. 2022 Throughout the first season, viewers learn that the steamship Kerberos is not actually in 1899, but a simulation in a spaceship in 2099, and the characters keep redoing the same trip across the ocean. —

Emily Burack, Town & Country, 27 Nov. 2022 On a snowy day a steamship glides toward an unremarkable Icelandic village nestled between two mountains. —

Ruth Margalit, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2022 See More

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