Thesaurus results for FREIGHTER

freighter

noun

as in steamship

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Recent Examples of freighter However, Boeing has sold only 49 jets to China since 2018, mostly freighter aircraft. —

Stephanie Yang, CNN Money, 20 May 2026 On Sunday, South Korea said a cargo ship had been struck by unidentified aircraft in Hormuz, while Qatar said a freighter arriving in the country's waters from Abu Dhabi was hit by a drone. —

CBS News, 14 May 2026 In 1980, 35 people were killed when a freighter rammed the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay in Florida, causing a 1,300-foot section of the southbound span to collapse. —

Chicago Tribune, 9 May 2026 The Russian freighter, known as Progress 95, is hauling about 3 tons of food, propellant and other supplies to the International Space Station (ISS). —

Mike Wall, Space.com, 25 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for freighter

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But Kutepov’s successor at ROVS, General Yevgeny Miller, in 1937 was also kidnapped in Paris and transported to Moscow in the hold of a Soviet steamship before being executed at Lubyanka.

— ANDREI SOLDATOV, Foreign Affairs, 25 Nov. 2025
As the ship’s pilot, Smalls took charge and ordered the crew to light the fires that fueled the steamship.

— Big Think, Big Think, 13 Nov. 2025