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Recent Examples of ship
Noun
Reusable Water Bottle Never leave the ship without a refillable water bottle. Kelsey Glennon, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2025 Baltimore fired Brandon Hyde in May, parting ways with a manager who had overseen a top-to-bottom rebuild but one who couldn’t right the ship dating to midway through the 2024 season. Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 7 July 2025
Verb
Park was accused of shipping approximately 180 pounds of ammonium nitrate to be used by Bartkus. Scott MacFarlane 6, CBS News, 6 July 2025 Rather than China, its main manufacturing hub and initially the target of Trump’s highest import taxes, the company now ships most of its U.S.-bound phones from India, where tariffs are lower. Verne Kopytoff, Fortune, 5 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for ship
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ship
Noun
  • Step inside the taproom, and an original Optimist pram boat hanging from the ceiling speaks to the coastal side of Dunedin’s story.
    Katie Strasberg Rousso, Southern Living, 12 July 2025
  • Getting to their site in Leticia meant boarding a boat at 5 a.m. every morning, saddled with all the gear, to travel half an hour to their set.
    Anna Marie de la Fuente, Variety, 11 July 2025
Verb
  • Two days after the letter was sent, Abbott announced 18 items on the special session agenda.
    Rachel Royster July 14, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 July 2025
  • Corinth, the wrangler of volunteers, spent evenings recruiting people from Facebook to help the next day or coordinating with Starbucks and H-E-B, which both sent teams.
    Bayliss Wagner, Austin American Statesman, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • Three helicopters and a thermal drone had been involved in the search by air over the Bali Strait, while about 20 vessels and fishing boats were mobilized for the sea search, Suyatno said.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 5 July 2025
  • The entire vessel then caught fire and was burning for some time.
    Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 July 2025
Verb
  • The man was pronounced dead at the scene and the woman was transported to a hospital in critical condition.
    Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 5 July 2025
  • An unidentified 16-year-old boy was pronounced dead at the scene and five other victims were transported to the hospital, police said.
    ABC News, ABC News, 5 July 2025
Noun
  • The American warship is the only U.S. aircraft carrier currently positioned to help counter China.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
  • In the 1980s, U.S. warships escorted Kuwaiti oil tankers through the strait to protect them against Iranian attacks during the Iran-Iraq war.
    David McHugh, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • The company grew steadily over the next 50 years, buying its first seven Boeing 727s freighters after two years of lobbying led to Congress deregulating air cargo.
    Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 22 June 2025
  • This is no more outlandish than Carol’s flight to France by way of Greenland, or Daryl’s voyage on a massive freighter.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025

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“Ship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ship. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.

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