Thesaurus results for FREIGHTER

freighter

noun

as in steamship

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Recent Examples of freighter The Edmund Fitzgerald, once a record-setting freighter on the Great Lakes, sank in a November storm in 1975, taking all 29 crew members with her. —

Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 19 Dec. 2025 But the freighter with the press was still headed to Idaho City. —

Idaho Statesman, 16 Dec. 2025 Two tug boats, one from Ontario and one from Minnesota, were alongside the freighter. —

Arkansas Online, 28 Nov. 2025 In both book and film, Claire meets Grainier during his stint as a freighter with a horse and wagon through Idaho’s forest, but in the film Claire (Kerry Condon) is a forestry services worker posted at a remote fire lookout tower. —

Rory Doherty, Time, 21 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for freighter

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Victor Rillet, a 21-year-old Frenchman, disembarked the steamship Washington in New York in October 1864, carrying the kind of optimism that fuels both great innovation and spectacular disappointment.

— The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2026
Tom Townsend, a former Putnam County school superintendent, said his family operated steamship tours showcasing the Ocklawaha before construction of the dam.

— David Bauerlein, Florida Times-Union, 9 Feb. 2026