warship

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Recent Examples of warship They were transported to the USS Iwo Jima warship before being flown to New York to face criminal charges. CBS News, 4 Jan. 2026 Colorado’s struggles with the power play has been a season-long theme, the one leak in a warship that has dominated opponents in all other phases. Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 4 Jan. 2026 The team then brought the pair to the USS Iwo Jima warship before bringing them to New York City where Maduro is facing charges of narcoterrorism and drug trafficking. Eric Fayeulle, ABC News, 4 Jan. 2026 Now, Maduro and Flores are reportedly guests of the United States government on the warship Iwo Jima, bound for New York to face what is likely to be the trial of the decade. David Unsworth, FOXNews.com, 3 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for warship
Recent Examples of Synonyms for warship
Noun
  • As the ship’s pilot, Smalls took charge and ordered the crew to light the fires that fueled the steamship.
    Big Think, Big Think, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The steamship was capable of carrying over 1,100 passengers and crew.
    Raul A. Reyes, NBC news, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Due to these conditions, the region is highly reliant on expensive and polluting diesel fuel transported by truck, plane, or barge.
    Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The 46-foot (14-meter) fairing made its way via barge and truck to Rocket Lab's facilities at MARS, after departing from the company's California test facility in December.
    Josh Dinner, Space.com, 28 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • According to air cargo data provider Rotate, freighter capacity declined 10 percent globally week over week, as of Sunday.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 9 Jan. 2026
  • The freighter arrived in the United Kingdom at the port of Felixstowe just 20 days later—successfully launching the first-ever Arctic commercial-container route from Asia to Europe.
    Brett Simpson, The Atlantic, 26 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • Putin is yet to comment on the developments related to the tanker, which the US had previously sanctioned for carrying illicit Iranian oil.
    Kosta Gak, CNN Money, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Fox News was first to report that SEALs seized the tanker.
    CBS News, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • One of the advantages, according to Guzy, is access to smaller ports that larger ships can’t reach, like Lipari, one of the Aeolian Islands off Sicily.
    Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The scary one involved reaching the moon and using Apollo 8’s howitzer of a main engine to slow the ship down and settle into lunar orbit, circling the moon 10 times before coming home.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 29 Jan. 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
  • Each bungalow is outfitted with two cruiser bikes that are perfect for getting around on property.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Gray transported Stella’s cruiser and the parts to Town Plot Auto Body, located at 332 Fairfield Ave.
    Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2026

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“Warship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warship. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.

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