steamship

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Recent Examples of steamship The original film details a three-year surfing tour that Metz took between 1958 and 1961, a journey that involved steamship-hopping, hitchhiking, every other possible manner of transportation across Europe, Australia and Africa. Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2025 German researchers recently announced the discovery of 31 shipwrecks, including a possible steamship that was destroyed in a World War II air raid. Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2025 The steamship moved goods up and down the coast and now serves as a floating museum. Leslie Kelly, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025 Bubonic plague reached the United States’ West Coast in 1900 from rats on steamships, killing more than 100 people. Sara Hashemi, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for steamship
Recent Examples of Synonyms for steamship
Noun
  • This 17-piece set includes eight pots and pans in varying sizes, along with their matching lids, as well as a steamer insert.
    Dena Ogden, Southern Living, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The novel opens as the teenage Karl Rossmann, whose parents shipped him off to America for fathering a child when he was seduced by the family’s thirty-five-year-old cook, arrives on a steamer in New York harbor and sees the Statue of Liberty holding not the emblematic torch but rather a sword.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Mules on the towpath along the canal could pull a heavy barge at a clip of 4 miles per hour – far faster than the job of dragging wagons over primitive roads.
    Christine Keiner, The Conversation, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Much of the barge remains above water, albeit at a precarious angle.
    Heather Richardson, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Running a day late, Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL cargo freighter pulled alongside the International Space Station on Thursday, delivering more than 5 tons of supplies and experiments to the lab's seven-person crew.
    Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The Cygnus team overcame that problem, however, and got the freighter on track for a one-day-late rendezvous.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The ferryboat was on the go all day long, covering more miles in a day than the barge would cover in a century.
    Eric DuVall, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2025
  • One foggy morning this spring, a ferryboat traversed the choppy waters between lower Manhattan and Governors Island.
    Adam Iscoe, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The force unveiled its most advanced warship, its first-ever destroyer, the Choe Hyon, in April.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Seoul, South Korea — A Japanese warship is on the way to the United States to be fitted with Tomahawk cruise missiles, the latest move by Washington and its Asian allies to beef up firepower as adversaries like China and North Korea expand theirs.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • However, a direct trip to Mars would require vast amounts of fuel, so SpaceX plans to use in-orbit refueling, where multiple tanker Starships transfer propellant to a main vehicle before departure.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Recently, Finnish special forces seized a Russian shadow tanker and investigated whether it had been involved in cutting undersea cables.
    James Stavridis, Twin Cities, 13 Oct. 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 19 Oct. 2025.

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