warship

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Recent Examples of warship Nerves jangled further on Wednesday when German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius told his country’s parliament, the Bundestag, that Russia continued to test the line and overflew a German warship in recent days. Matthew Bodner, NBC news, 25 Sep. 2025 Giant robot warship Conrad Shipyard will build Blue Water’s first group of autonomous vessels under a new agreement. Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025 While a lot of attention is being focused on Venezuela these days — and on President Trump’s deployment of warships near its coast — don’t lose sight of the parallel economic collapse unfolding in Cuba. Andres Oppenheimer september 17, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2025 On Sanday, another one of the Orkney Islands, a warship connected to the American Revolution was uncovered on a beach by a schoolboy. Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 28 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for warship
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Noun
  • The 410-foot-long, 72-year-old ship offers the largest cross-lake passenger service on the Great Lakes and an authentic steamship experience, its website says.
    Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • So Gabriela and her companion set off on a steamship headed to Altamira.
    Mia Sosa, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 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
  • And on a barge with 30 elephants on the bank and the sun setting and birds flying over and hippos in the water.
    Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
  • And on a barge with 30 elephants on the bank and the sun setting and birds flying over and hippos in the water.
    Janelle Ash , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • According to Russia's Pacific Fleet, the Marshal Shaposhnikov and the Gremyashchy are currently on a long-distance deployment in the Asia-Pacific region with the sea tanker Boris Butoma.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The mission architecture included OOR, consisting of multiple tanker vehicles launched to service a refueling depot in LEO.
    Matthew S Williams, Interesting Engineering, 25 Sep. 2025
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
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
  • That history includes the 1947 Texas City disaster, when a ship carrying ammonium nitrate exploded and killed nearly 600 people, and the 2013 fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas, which killed 15 people.
    Isabel Rosales, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
  • She’s invited on the ship to take a break from the hard-hitting stories that have shaken her up.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • This can all quickly change if the Navy gets real about their fuel demands, acknowledges the Pacific will be contested, and confronts the looming logistical challenge of keeping vast numbers of autonomous corvettes and other small support craft operational in a conflict.
    Craig Hooper, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025

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