warship

Definition of warshipnext

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Recent Examples of warship The war has highlighted the shrunken state of the Royal Navy, which has deployed just one major warship, the destroyer HMS Dragon, to the eastern Mediterranean. Sylvie Corbet, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026 The war has highlighted the shrunken state of the Royal Navy, which has deployed just one major warship, destroyer HMS Dragon, to the eastern Mediterranean. ABC News, 16 Apr. 2026 State media claim the warship is designed to carry a range of systems, including anti-air and anti-ship weapons as well as nuclear-capable ballistic and cruise missiles. Greg Norman-Diamond, FOXNews.com, 14 Apr. 2026 These are not the polished relics of admirals and officers but the everyday possessions of working men who fought and died aboard a burning warship. Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for warship
Recent Examples of Synonyms for warship
Noun
  • For those escaping to Philadelphia from regions nearer to Pennsylvania, clandestine travel by small boat or by road was more likely than stowing away on a steamship.
    Jeremy Mennis, The Conversation, 1 May 2026
  • Scheidt’s family were members of the German-Jewish bourgeoisie (a distant cousin, Albert Ballin, was general director of what became the world’s largest steamship line).
    Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The fact that a humpback whale had been dredged out for days by volunteers, corralled into a barge and released into the North Sea demonstrated a collective good will toward nature that can seem all too rare.
    Jessica Camille Aguirre, New Yorker, 2 May 2026
  • The reusable first-stage booster was designed to land on a nearby barge.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 May 2026
Noun
  • The Russian freighter, known as Progress 95, is hauling about 3 tons of food, propellant and other supplies to the International Space Station (ISS).
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Operating six weekly flights with a dedicated FedEx Boeing 777 freighter, shipments from Vietnam are consolidated in Ho Chi Minh City before being transported to Singapore for a direct flight to Anchorage.
    Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 24 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The country also retains significant tanker capacity — equivalent to roughly 37 very large crude carriers — both inside and outside the blockade.
    Anthony Di Paola, Fortune, 2 May 2026
  • The tanker that is the NFL Draft isn’t about be turned around on the small matter of perspective.
    Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • The ship will sail toward the Canary Islands off the coast of Spain.
    Eve Chen, USA Today, 8 May 2026
  • Hundreds of commercial ships remain stuck in the Persian Gulf as the conflict disrupts global oil and gas supplies, pushing fuel prices higher.
    Adam Schreck, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2026
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 Grammy award-winning band was followed by a dozen corvettes carrying honorees and the university's new president, Dwayne Tucker.
    Vivian Jones, Nashville Tennessean, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Hull numbers provided by Japan's Defense Ministry identified the Russian vessels as the frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov, the corvette Gremyashchy and a replenishment ship.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In November 2024, military officials in England announced that a shipwreck discovered off the coast of Scotland was confirmed to be the HMS Hawke, a British cruiser sunk by a torpedo during World War I, killing more than 500 crew members on board.
    Stephen Smith, CBS News, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Magnano got out of his cruiser and approached his fellow officers before almost immediately yelling for Steven Jones to drop the knife, according to the video.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 30 Apr. 2026

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“Warship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warship. Accessed 9 May. 2026.

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