How to Use freighter in a Sentence

freighter

noun

• Daryl was able to get to France on a freighter.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
• Papa loved the sound of freighter horns as ships passed Algonac.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 22 June 2021
• Most of that type of aircraft have been altered to freighters, the group says.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 24 Apr. 2024
• Many freighters ply the gulf, heading to and from the Great Lakes.
  — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 24 Aug. 2017
• In one video, he can be heard shouting toward the freighter to ask if anyone was hurt.
  — Ivan Pereira, ABC News, 12 May 2024
• No freighters will meet up with Artemis 2 in deep space, however.
  — Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 30 Mar. 2026
• But the freighter with the press was still headed to Idaho City.
  — Idaho Statesman, 16 Dec. 2025
• But the freighter with the press was still headed to Idaho City.
  — idahostatesman, 1 Aug. 2015
• The 253-foot steel freighter ran aground on a sandbar during the storm.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 25 Nov. 2024
• Yes, the 747 will continue to fly as a freighter for many years to come.
  — John Cox, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2021
• When a freighter is in town, Acela wakes up early to open the shop and spends most of each day at the dock.
  — Rowan Moore Gerety, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• The tiny tugboat is no match for the massive freighter, and the two vessels collide.
  — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2023
• These freighters can carry up to 23 metric tons of cargo per flight.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
• The exact cause of the large freighter’s demise during the storm remains a mystery.
  — The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
• It was converted to a bulk freighter in 1869.
  — George Petras, USA Today, 16 Feb. 2026
• The exact cause of the large freighter’s demise during the storm remains a mystery.
  — Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 10 Nov. 2025
• Dragon is the only one of these freighters that's reusable.
  — Mike Wall, Space.com, 11 Apr. 2026
• An inbound French freighter, the Mont-Blanc, couldn’t get out of its way.
  — Marc Wortman, Smithsonian, 14 July 2017
• As fuel costs increased for the three engine jets many of them were converted to freighters.
  — Amanda Jackson, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
• As spring warms up, the freighters have returned to crisscrossing the Great Lakes.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland.com, 30 Mar. 2018
• For the second time this month, a freighter has run aground in the Detroit River.
  — Arkansas Online, 28 Nov. 2025
• 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
• Six oil and gas freighters were observed navigating on a route that cleaves close to Oman’s coast.
  — Weilun Soon, Fortune, 5 July 2026
• After the collapse, the freighter remained stuck beneath the bridge, with part of the roadway on top of its bow.
  — Susan Miller, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2024
• Part of it is the sheer scale and speed of the tragedy, a freighter the size of a skyscraper disappearing so quickly.
  — Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 4 Nov. 2025
• Each Hulett had a bucket that could lift 17 tons of iron ore out of a freighter’s hold in a single bite.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 18 Aug. 2019
• Taking the long way around Africa adds about 10 days to a typical freighter’s time at sea.
  — Paul A. Eisenstein, NBC News, 26 Mar. 2021
• Later, after a brief rest, Nathan stood on the deck of the freighter, staring out across the ocean for more than two hours.
  — James D. Walsh, Daily Intelligencer, 23 Jan. 2018
• Behind the porch, four sunny rooms span the front of the house and share the same panorama of water, freighters and sailboats.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 28 Oct. 2017
• And from the darkness of the Cuyahoga River beyond, a freighter blares its horn.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 24 Aug. 2023