warship

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Recent Examples of warship According to the Philippine Coast Guard, the USS Higgins wasn’t the only US warship in the vicinity of Scarborough Shoal on Wednesday. Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2025 Another video showed a Chinese coast guard ship bearing the number 3104 appearing to bear down on the back of the Filipino boat when the warship appears from the left of the shot in front. Peter Guo, NBC news, 12 Aug. 2025 Let The Mockery Continue The Royal Navy warship, which is leading the international Carrier Strike Group 2025 (CSG25), was meant to showcase the UK's commitment to the Indo-Pacific. Peter Suciu, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025 The warships, which are equipped for undersea warfare and air defence, will replace Australia’s Anzac-class frigates. Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for warship
Recent Examples of Synonyms for warship
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Daryl was able to get to France on a freighter.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Andrew Pepler — the great-great-great grandson of James Carruthers, the shipping executive after whom a sunken freighter was named — said the news that the missing ship was finally found overwhelmed him with a flood of emotions.
    Frank Witsil, Freep.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Other soybeans continue their journey to global markets, moving through the heartland by rail or barge to ports, then across oceans.
    Gary McGuigan, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The decommissioned Navy barge from the outside.
    Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The proposal relies on Starship being refueled in low-Earth orbit by multiple Starship tanker launches.
    Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The most recent mission on Tuesday lasted six hours and was not supported by an aerial refueling tanker.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 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
  • This will mark the first time LL Cool J, 57, is steering the ship solo.
    Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Maybe ship Enid with somebody her own age.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The smaller craft outmaneuvered the two larger ships, causing the 1,500-ton China coast guard vessel—a converted Chinese navy corvette—to slam into the side of the 7,500-ton warship.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 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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