steamship

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Recent Examples of steamship Moulton spent five weeks traveling by steamship, train and stagecoach to Santa Ana, arriving on May 6, 1874. Penny E Schwartz, Oc Register, 19 May 2025 In March 2024, the wreck of the steamship Milwaukee, which sank after colliding with another vessel in 1886, was found 360 feet below the water's surface in Lake Michigan. CBS News, 16 May 2025 On the Mississippi, where Mark Twain had once waited upriver for steamships from this city, all boat traffic had fallen silent. Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025 The breakthrough came soon after, with a roving assignment aboard the Quaker City, a steamship bound for Palestine. Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for steamship
Recent Examples of Synonyms for steamship
Noun
  • Harris notes the large market for shower steamers with energizing scents that help people wake up.
    Matt Fuchs, Time, 10 July 2025
  • This unit comes with 12 pieces, including a long spray nozzle, a round brush, and a fabric steamer tool.
    Michelle Lau, Southern Living, 9 July 2025
Noun
  • The annual spectacle, lighting up the city since 1976, this time was launched from barges in the Hudson River, the first time in more than a decade not done from the East River.
    Ben Verbrugge, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025
  • After a barge crashed into the restaurant in 2019, the main dining area sank and sent pieces onto the banks of the Ohio River with tables, chairs and umbrellas floating upriver.
    Hailey Roden, The Enquirer, 2 July 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
Noun
  • The alternative would have been a full scrapping, which is what befell another Staten Island ferryboat, the Andrew J. Barberi.
    E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 10 May 2025
  • As a teenager, Ellen Dare Burling had an unusual summer job: Jumping off a moving ferryboat onto wooden piers, her arms filled with letters and packages destined for summer residents in their southern Wisconsin lake houses.
    Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 30 Mar. 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
  • The name, man o’ war, is derived from the animal’s resemblance to the Portuguese sailing warship, the caravel or man of war, in full sail.
    GrrlScientist, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • During the recent conflict, the Israeli Air Force demonstrated an impressive capability to reach targets deep inside Iran while relying on its aged Boeing 707 tankers for refueling its fighter jets.
    Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • While some Iranian cargoes are shipped directly from Iran to China, the majority undergo multiple ship-to-ship transfers, often in the Middle East Gulf or the Strait of Malacca, where Iranian oil transported by sanctioned vessels is transferred to non-sanctioned tankers before shipping to China.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • These preyed upon American merchantmen who either payed tribute or showed forged British passes.
    Thomas Wendel, National Review, 4 July 2019
  • The Navy already has ships in the fleet that are former merchantmen.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2019
Noun
  • Nassau had no men-of-war ships, and Trott’s stone fort was still a building site.
    Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
  • My hundred-and-forty-foot man-of-war sought to make the first mission to the South Pole, a feat that would bring pride to England.
    Mike O’Brien, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023

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“Steamship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steamship. Accessed 16 Jul. 2025.

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