How to Use amphibious in a Sentence

amphibious

adjective
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  • The Bonhomme Richard was the sixth of the Wasp-class amphibious ships.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Feb. 2021
  • The well deck is where the ship stores and stages amphibious landing craft.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 June 2021
  • Much like frogs, who live a life of half-and-half, these fish are amphibious.
    — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2023
  • The group said the man was a soldier on board the USS Wasp, an amphibious assault ship.
    — Reuters, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2024
  • Ukraine said the vessels hit were two amphibious landing ships, the Yamal and the Azov.
    — Andrew Carey, Maria Kostenko and Josh Pennington, CNN, 24 Mar. 2024
  • The sea was also rough and only two of 29 amphibious tanks even made it to shore.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 6 June 2023
  • How many small amphibious ships and small supply ships does the Navy need?
    — David Axe, Forbes, 21 June 2021
  • The amphibious assault ship burned for more than four days.
    — Arkansas Online, 31 July 2021
  • The Russians have 21 ships in the Black Sea 12 of them are surface combatant ships and nine of them are amphibious ships.
    — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The amphibious assault ship USS Bataan was dispatched to ...
    — Noah Rothman, National Review, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The small but heavy amphibious vehicle that reached speeds of 7 mph on water and 70 mph on land.
    — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Its flight deck is more in common with the US Navy's amphibious assault ships.
    — Yoonjung Seo and Brad Lendon, CNN, 3 Sep. 2021
  • The amphibious planes skim the surface of lakes or the ocean to fill tanks with more than1,600 gallons of capacity that can be dropped on the flames.
    — Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2020
  • In the event of a Chinese amphibious assault, drones could help Taiwan, as well.
    — Mark A. Milley, Foreign Affairs, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Jackson didn't know where on the 840-foot amphibious assault vessel the fire was sparked.
    — Fox News, 13 July 2020
  • Wallace and Hansen both played on the amphibious force football team there that Bucklew coached.
    — cincinnati.com, 26 May 2022
  • Rossi boops their snoots with a clicky ballpoint pen, and the fish—which are amphibious, and can survive on land for weeks at a time—backflip out of reach.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 15 June 2021
  • The amphibious assault ships are among the few in the U.S. fleet that can act as a mini aircraft carrier.
    — Arkansas Online, 31 July 2021
  • Still, the amphibious cruiser was at least able to deliver on the second part of that slogan.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 3 June 2022
  • The 29-year old USS Rushmore is an amphibious dock landing ship.
    — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2020
  • The Black Sea Fleet was poised to attempt an amphibious landing around Odesa.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The Marines use the amphibious assault vehicles to transport troops and their equipment from Navy ships to land.
    — CBS News, 31 July 2020
  • The whale was more amphibious and retained functional hind limbs that would have allowed the mammal to stand on land.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2022
  • That brings us to his latest amphibious creation, which sports both wheels and duck-foot-like paddles.
    — Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The 843-foot amphibious assault ship, which carries a mix of aircraft, deployed on Monday for the first time in five years.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Apr. 2024
  • About 160 sailors and officers were on board when the amphibious assault vessel went up in flames.
    — Jessica Flores, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2020
  • With Russian ships driven far from Ukrainian shores, the threat of an amphibious attack is gone.
    — Mark Cancian, Foreign Affairs, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The cause of the fire aboard Bonhomme Richard, an amphibious assault vessel, is unknown, according to the Navy.
    — Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 14 July 2020
  • The roughly one-minute video shows fighter jets, warships and amphibious assault vessels in the air and at sea, and mobile missile launchers being moved into place.
    — Wayne Chang, CNN, 14 Oct. 2024
  • The future of robotics is looking increasingly amphibious, and the Honey Badger is leading the pack.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 5 Nov. 2024

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