as in submarine
a large sandwich on a long split roll
that deli's torpedoes are big enough to serve two people
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Recent Examples of torpedo
Jack Harris wrote at length about the torpedo bats here.
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Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2025
To address this inefficiency, torpedo bats are made with more wood in the sweet spot and less wood elsewhere—thus, the bulge.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025
But torpedo bats, designed by a physicist, are changing how baseball is played.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 8 Apr. 2025
Are torpedo bats — the relatively new bats that are shaped like a bowling pin to help players hit the sweet spot — good or bad for baseball?
—Michael S. Schmidt, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
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Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2025
To address this inefficiency, torpedo bats are made with more wood in the sweet spot and less wood elsewhere—thus, the bulge.
—Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025
But torpedo bats, designed by a physicist, are changing how baseball is played.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 8 Apr. 2025
Are torpedo bats — the relatively new bats that are shaped like a bowling pin to help players hit the sweet spot — good or bad for baseball?
—Michael S. Schmidt, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for torpedo
Recent Examples of Synonyms for torpedo
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Today, there are robotic ships being tested for anti-submarine patrols, as minehunters, and even as submarines without crews.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
24 Apr. 2025
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Like their nuclear counterparts, U.S. ballistic and cruise missiles would be dispersed among a combination of mobile launch vehicles on land, submarines at sea, and bombers in the air.—
ANDREW S. LIM,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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“Torpedo.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/torpedo. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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