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
  • Anemoi revealed that the sails were transported by barge and lifted directly onto the deck.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
  • In Abu Dhabi’s Yas Marina, another company is marketing a 31-room floating hotel — resembling a converted barge — with stays from $270 a night.
    Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Other agencies would also be involved in trying to determine whether the company that owned the tanker had complied with regulations.
    Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN Money, 11 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
  • The fleet encountered a hurricane off the coast of Eastern Florida in an area now known as the Treasure Coast — named for the fact that a large number of shipwrecks took place there — and all but one of the fleet’s approximately 12 ships were destroyed.
    Toria Sheffield, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
  • By the time the ship arrived in Miami, federal health agency says 94 passengers onboard Serenade of the Seas reported falling ill.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Based on their hull numbers, the Russian vessels were the Pacific Fleet's missile cruiser Varyag and the corvette Gromkiy.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Sep. 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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