steamship

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Recent Examples of steamship So Gabriela and her companion set off on a steamship headed to Altamira. Mia Sosa, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025 And for those seeking British history, visit Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s SS Great Britain, a steamship created by the man who masterminded much of England’s most impressive infrastructure, including the railway from London to Bristol. Lottie Gross, AFAR Media, 29 Aug. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for steamship
Recent Examples of Synonyms for steamship
Noun
  • At 638-feet long, the ship delivered limestone and was considered the most updated and the largest steamer on the Great Lakes at the time, according to the Presque Isle County Historical Museum.
    Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Watch this video for 3 ways to use a steamer to clean your home.
    Cody Godwin, USA Today, 2 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Lookouts on boats Days after the accident, civil maritime attorneys weighed in and explained that the crash could be the result of the barge not having a proper lookout.
    David Goodhue October 31, Miami Herald, 31 Oct. 2025
  • But efforts to drag the barge to the site via helicopter failed, with the icebreaker getting stuck in ice and mud.
    Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The exact cause of the large freighter’s demise during the storm remains a mystery.
    Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Theories range from the Edmund Fitzgerald striking a shoal and suffering bottom damage to flooding through the freighter's hatch covers, which filled the ship with water and sank it, to rogue waves, to structural flaws in the ship that the 1975 storm made deadly.
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 9 Nov. 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 warship’s presence around the UK will also contribute to wider maritime security operations.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Smith made history as the first Black Commanding Officer of a Canadian warship in 2014 and the first Black commanding officer of the unit in 2021.
    Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • What’s happening now Fuel is running short in Bamako as militants belonging to a group called Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam al-Muslimin (JNIM) cut roads to the capital, attack military patrols and ambush tanker trucks.
    Tim Lister, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2025
  • No structural damage was done to the bridge after the fire involving a tanker carrying diesel, said the Ohio Department of Transportation.
    Matthew Cupelli, Cincinnati Enquirer, 29 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
  • The Coast Guard launched a response involving the cutter Angela McShan (WPC 1135), an HC-130 Hercules airplane and an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from Air Station Elizabeth City.
    Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Shohei Ohtani, who had started the game on short rest and surrendered a three-run blast to Bo Bichette that put the Dodgers in a hole, hacked at a first-pitch cutter inside that Isiah Kiner-Falefa at second base handled easily.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025

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“Steamship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steamship. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.

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