How to Use aircraft carrier in a Sentence

aircraft carrier

noun

• The aircraft carrier has been based in San Diego the past three years.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 July 2022
• This was the first aircraft carrier that allows planes to take off and land of the same time.
  — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 31 Jan. 2023
• The crowd of 3,000 was made up mostly of sailors from the aircraft carrier as well as fans of both teams.
  — Bernie Wilson, ajc, 12 Nov. 2022
• The United States, in response, sent two aircraft carrier groups to the area.
  — New York Times, 3 Aug. 2022
• It’s like seeing an aircraft carrier make a U-turn in a swimming pool.
  — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
• One of eight such ships in the Navy, the Bonhomme Richard is like a small aircraft carrier, made to ferry thousands of Marines into combat.
  — Megan Rose, ProPublica, 23 Sep. 2022
• At the same time, the United States was deploying a second aircraft carrier to the Eastern Mediterranean amid fears of a wider war.
  — Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
• One of the first things Biden did after October 7th was to park two aircraft carriers in the eastern Mediterranean.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
• On Monday, China deployed one of its three aircraft carriers, the Shandong, to the Taiwan strait.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 12 Sep. 2023
• Those wings fold up, like the wings of a fighter jet on an aircraft carrier, to fit inside the payload envelope of its rocket.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 1 Nov. 2023
• Pruitt also perched a big wooden pallet on the bow that made his canoe look like an aircraft carrier.
  — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 5 Nov. 2023
• Even an aircraft carrier has ten times more landing space.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 16 Mar. 2023
• The aircraft carrier’s heyday came during World War II.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 31 May 2023
• Ines Hixon described being deployed with the military on an aircraft carrier in Iran at the time of the shooting.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2022
• In 2012, the NCAA planned four aircraft carrier games, but the weather wasn’t as cooperative.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 15 July 2022
• The deployment was the first aircraft carrier deployment for a Marine Corps F-35C squadron.
  — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2022
• Tensions arise when Trowbridge seemingly blames Iran for the attack on the British aircraft carrier, in spite of evidence to the contrary.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Apr. 2023
• The Pentagon has sent two aircraft carriers to the eastern Mediterranean and has increased troops in the area as a deterrence measure.
  — Julian E. Barnes, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
• If there’s a driving equivalent to taking off and landing a fighter jet on an aircraft carrier, this is it.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2023
• Complex problems are more like landing a plane on an aircraft carrier.
  — Roger Whitney, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• Erwin was a Navy veteran who had served on an aircraft carrier during the Vietnam War.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2024
• The service also wants another aircraft carrier, more destroyers, and a boost in the number of frigates and submarines.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 July 2022
• His first attempt at landing a Vought F4U Corsair on an aircraft carrier draws a crowd of onlookers.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Nov. 2022
• And while this will be the first game of its kind on an aircraft carrier in a decade, the previous meetings could provide some insight on how to handicap Friday’s matchup.
  — Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 11 Nov. 2022
• These days, there always is an American aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean Sea.
  — Margherita Stancati, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
• While flying is a thrill, landing aboard an aircraft carrier can be downright nerve-racking.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 21 Sep. 2022
• Days later, the USS Nimitz, an aircraft carrier with a small city’s worth of crew members, made a port call—accompanied by three destroyers.
  — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 20 Feb. 2023
• Ommaney Bay The Japanese bomber penetrated the task force’s defenses and homed in on the aircraft carrier—a major prize if sunk.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2023
• This is why -- why President Biden sent two aircraft carrier groups to the region to prevent that kind of escalation, to send a message to Iran, to Hezbollah and others.
  — ABC News, 17 Dec. 2023
• An active-duty Navy sailor who was stationed on an aircraft carrier in Norfolk at the time of the riot was arrested in April and charged with misdemeanor crimes.
  — Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 12 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024