How to Use torpedo in a Sentence

torpedo

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• The battleship was sunk by a torpedo fired by a submarine.
• But was the torpedo aimed at the Wén Rui, or at her ship?
  — Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 26 Jan. 2021
• The blast of the first torpedo lifted him off his feet.
  — John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2023
• The more riders, the more people slept in the torpedo room.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 4 Jan. 2022
• Celaya was sleeping on the ship’s top deck when the first torpedo hit.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Aug. 2020
• The downgrades would be like a torpedo in the side of the CLO industry.
  — Christopher Leonard, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2021
• If you can’t be bothered to spit out a torpedo-size pit or slice around it, these will do!
  — Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 24 Nov. 2021
• Shock raced through me like a torpedo before landing in a hard knot at the pit of my stomach.
  — EW.com, 29 Sep. 2021
• Images showed the ship's three-tube torpedo launcher and gun mount.
  — CBS News, 25 June 2022
• The set-up: A stealth Russian sub gets attacked by its own torpedoes.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 July 2023
• The drone used during the mission has a shape similar to a small torpedo.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 12 July 2021
• Once located, a hole is drilled over the ice, and the team begins to recover the torpedo.
  — Jon Schlosberg, ABC News, 15 Mar. 2022
• Or the commander of one of the other subs could have decided to launch a torpedo.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2020
• Two of those arms seem to be longer than the other eight, and its body was shaped like a torpedo, similar to modern squid.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 8 Mar. 2022
• The Virginias can carry a total of up to 40 cruise missiles at a time, six more than the Yasen M type, but have just four torpedo tubes.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 Sep. 2021
• When cruise missiles first went to sea, submarines launched them from torpedo tubes.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 May 2022
• Build Back Better bill, which Mr. Manchin helped torpedo last year.
  — Timothy Puko, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2022
• This 30-pack of pool toys includes all kinds of shapes (rings, sticks, torpedoes), so kids ages 3 and up can practice their diving skills.
  — Phoebe Sklansky, Peoplemag, 10 July 2023
• There is a noise that, for a Navy captain, may well be the worst sound imaginable—worse than the boom of cannon fire, the whistle of a missile, or the whoosh of a torpedo.
  — Longreads, 5 Sep. 2023
• The footage was obtained by strapping a camera to a practice torpedo.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2 Dec. 2020
• The attack by dozens of Japanese aircraft armed with bombs and torpedoes left 842 men dead.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 30 May 2023
• The sheer explosive power of a single typical torpedo is enough to break the keel of most ships.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
• One or two of those torpedoes appear to have exploded onboard, killing most of the men on the submarine.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2020
• Early in the movie, the U-Boat fires the world’s slowest-moving torpedo at the chugging riverboat from a distance of no more than ten yards, and misses.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 27 July 2021
• When flattened, their dorsal fin can help turn the sailfish into a torpedo that shoots through the water.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 1 Aug. 2022
• Meyer joined sailors crawling out from the lower decks in darkness after a second torpedo knocked out the lights and the ship began to roll.
  — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Dec. 2021
• Kidd, along with 1,176 other sailors and Marines, was killed when the Arizona sank under multiple bomb and torpedo hits.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 Sep. 2020
• Its 24 heavyweight weapons, naval cruise missiles, F21 torpedoes, and anti-ship missiles, would be launched from both torpedo tubes on the sides and at the rear of the vessel.
  — Christina MacKenzie, Popular Science, 30 Nov. 2020
• The torpedo resembles a traditional spiral that can be used to rocket a punt from deep in a team’s own territory.
  — Jeré Longman, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2023
• The battleship was hit by multiple torpedoes and, later, a bomb, according to the Naval History and Heritage Command.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 3 Oct. 2023

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torpedo

2 of 2 verb

• Her injury torpedoed her goal of competing in the Olympics.
• The submarine torpedoed the battleship.
• But then Trump got to work — and torpedoed Emmer’s chances.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 26 Oct. 2023
• Not this year, due to the strike that almost torpedoed the whole darn shebang.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2023
• The idea of female friendships -- and what can torpedo them -- is hardly a new one.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 10 Dec. 2020
• All failed, torpedoed by the intransigence of one side or the other.
  — Ivan Nechepurenko Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
• The margin hasn’t been that big since the spring of 2007, less than a year before the Great Recession torpedoed the economy.
  — Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2019
• Adam had it all as a top chef in Paris... until drugs and alcohol helped torpedo his career.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 22 Apr. 2023
• The launch of OpenAI’s plugins threatens to torpedo these efforts, Guo says.
  — WIRED, 28 Mar. 2023
• The Padres can, and many times do, buy insurance to protect against injuries that can torpedo big contracts.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2021
• What if the Bears again have a Super Bowl-caliber defense that gets torpedoed by a woeful offense?
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 6 Sep. 2019
• Nothing torpedoes a ballclub faster than bad contracts, and the Astros have done well to avoid them for most of their dynastic run.
  — Daniel R. Epstein, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2024
• Dorsey wanted to move away from all the factions, second-guessing and finger-pointing that have torpedoed the team for years.
  — Terry Pluto, cleveland.com, 8 Sep. 2019
• In many ways, the Fed has been untangling a web of data ever since the pandemic torpedoed through the economy more than three years ago.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2023
• Failure to conform to the fearlessness of the steelworker had torpedoed my dad’s self-esteem.
  — Deborah Orr, The New York Review of Books, 7 Feb. 2020
• What the 49ers have: The 49ers have a rare commodity — a backup QB who won’t torpedo the season if forced into action.
  — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 15 Apr. 2020
• The two sides are accusing each other of torpedoing talks.
  — Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2019
• But two pitches went awry in Wednesday’s middle innings and torpedoed Bailey’s 21st career appearance and first for the A’s against the Cubs.
  — Jack McCarthy, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2019
• The request for an additional 200 million pounds torpedoed the rescue deal that had been months in the making.
  — Reuters, The Mercury News, 23 Sep. 2019
• But that has not stopped Manchin from raising the issue -- to the delight of Republicans who have hoped that inflation fears would torpedo the bill.
  — Maeve Reston, CNN, 20 Dec. 2021
• The move came amid several ongoing court cases even as Amazon has tried hard to torpedo the deal.
  — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 16 Mar. 2022
• That’s thanks to the obvious fact that Shell is an oil and gas company, not keen to torpedo its core business at a time when that business is raking in record profits.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 24 May 2023
• No one in the child-welfare world doubts that one parent can torpedo the other’s relationship with a son or daughter.
  — Barbara Bradley Hagerty, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2020
• Just as troublesome, dating back a few games, are penalties that have torpedoed promising drives.
  — oregonlive, 29 Oct. 2019
• Losing a player like Woolridge would be enough to torpedo most mid-major programs.
  — Brett Vito, Denton Record-Chronicle, 8 Jan. 2020
• If those best interests torpedo the best interests of other schools then … sucks for them.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 July 2022
• Not to be lost among all of the fish jokes is that fact that torpedoing a salmon several hundred feet in the air is a significant feat of engineering.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 12 Aug. 2019
• The avoidance of a small problem that then nearly torpedoed your whole reputation?
  — Demetria Gallegos, WSJ, 29 July 2023
• After months of breaking records, what has happened to torpedo Ohio’s gambling revenue in recent weeks?
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 8 Dec. 2020
• There was the disappointment of the early season ankle injury that torpedoed an exceptional start and cost him 18 games.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 29 Feb. 2024

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