How to Use mother ship in a Sentence

mother ship

noun

• So are boat hunts based in a mother ship with smaller craft used to reach shore.
  — Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 2 Apr. 2020
• Also, the mother ship is calling you back to your host planet.
  — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 July 2018
• In the Apollo days, the lander and the mother ship were launched on the same rocket.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 29 Jan. 2026
• The mother ship, the Polar Prince, then lost track of the vessel.
  — Ray Sanchez and Graham Hurley, CNN, 17 Sep. 2024
• The last scene in that script is this little alien that gets left behind by its mother ship and is left alone on Earth.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 June 2026
• Or call the mother ship overhead and put in an order for its 3D printer.
  — Lee Roop | [email protected], al, 26 Jan. 2023
• It is built for conducting deep-sea exploration and is the mother ship of two types of submersibles.
  — Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
• The fishermen would lower long lines laden with hooks, pull up the catch, and row or sail the dory back to the mother ship to unload it.
  — Billy Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2019
• That energy has kept a steady tide of fans ditching their careers for a chance to join the mother ship; to touch the magic for themselves.
  — Luke Winkie, Wired, 27 Feb. 2021
• Hotels are planned nearby, to cater to workers and suppliers paying a visit to the mother ship.
  — Wendy Lee, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2018
• Here was the makings of a mother ship that could haul both parts and ass in company with 150-mph Corvettes.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 3 Feb. 2023
• Then as the sun peaked over the bay, Wait powered up and motored the mother ship about 600 yards away and idled it near shore.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2021
• In response, a tiny drone zips off its mother ship to the rescue, zooming behind the enemy soldiers and killing them with ease.
  — Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
• Collins, who orbited the moon in the mother ship while his crewmates were on the surface, was keenly aware that failure was an option.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2019
• Teevan remained at Microsoft while the mother ship blundered its way through the mobile era.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024
• Now, with the Strait of Hormuz closed, large mother ships bringing shipments to Iraq can no longer get to the port.
  — ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026
• Startups backed by Alexa Fund get special access to the Amazon mother ship.
  — Patience Haggin, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2017
• Comcast shareholders will also have stock in the new public company, but its results will not be part of the mother ship’s.
  — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 28 Feb. 2025
• First the layout boat was anchored in place and Peikert carefully stepped from the mother ship into the floating blind.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Dec. 2021
• The Titan’s mother ship, the Polar Prince, is based in Canada.
  — Patrick Whittle, Anchorage Daily News, 29 June 2023
• Unlike the drone, this one was steered manually from the mother ship, and had high-definition cameras.
  — John Ismay, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2019
• The space plane then detached from the mother ship at an altitude of about 8 1/2 miles and fired its engine, reaching the edge of space.
  — Susan Montoya Bryan and Marcia Dunn, chicagotribune.com, 11 July 2021
• Roberts, Stantec’s team drew other visual connections with the mother ship across Clark.
  — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• The vessel must remain in constant contact with the mother ship in order to coordinate a safe return.
  — Time, 20 June 2023
• The sub lost contact with its mother ship an hour and 45 minutes into the two-hour descent to the wreck, prompting a massive, days-long search.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 23 June 2023
• And this is bubbling over to the mother ship known as Keeping Up With the Kardashians.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 9 Feb. 2018
• Lynfred has four locations in the suburbs, but the mother ship is in Roselle, a half-mile stroll from the Metra station.
  — Lori Rackl, chicagotribune.com, 29 June 2018
• The mother ship has two fuselages, side by side, and SpaceShipTwo was nestled between them.
  — Anna Russel, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
• An overture of swooping, darting neon heralds the arrival of a mother ship that looks like a cross between a cathedral and a cosmic chandelier.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 31 Aug. 2017
• The bogus transcript told of Titan informing its mother ship of a series of hull alarms, as well as reports of crackling noises.
  — William J. Broad, New York Times, 10 June 2024