steamship

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Recent Examples of steamship That’s what was being asked — for days — after the White Star Line’s famous steamship Titanic hit an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025 Told in first-person narrative with archival photos, the 225-page coffee-table book covers the family’s many setbacks and triumphs dating back to the early 1890s, when Jessop’s great-grandparents arrived in San Diego via steamship, rail and horsedrawn buggy. David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025 The wooden steamship — which measured 95 feet and weighed 82 gross tons — was built in 1873 in Stockton, New South Wales, according to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2025 In 1925, Evangelina Rodríguez stepped off a steamship in her hometown of San Pedro de Macorís. Laura Gómez, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for steamship
Recent Examples of Synonyms for steamship
Noun
  • Back then, the steamer was the first to push content out in 4K and later HDR.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 4 June 2025
  • When used together, the steamer and the mask boost curls’ retention and definition while tending to overall hair health.
    Jenny Berg, Vogue, 26 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The frames were built in Poland and shipped by a barge through the European river network to Marseille’s port on France’s southern coast for the contractor to pour the concrete to create 18 cubes.
    Mark Faithfull, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
  • These technologies include a bubble barrier that removes small fish trapped under barges or carried in their wake and an acoustic deterrent that creates painful sound waves.
    Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2025
Noun
  • In 1986, a 520-foot freighter from South Korea scraped the underside of the bridge, destroying one of the ship’s radars.
    Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 18 May 2025
  • Two-thirds of the 155 that Boeing sold were configured as freighters, including the final one that left the factory in 2023.
    Jeremy Bogaisky, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • The alternative would have been a full scrapping, which is what befell another Staten Island ferryboat, the Andrew J. Barberi.
    E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 10 May 2025
  • As a teenager, Ellen Dare Burling had an unusual summer job: Jumping off a moving ferryboat onto wooden piers, her arms filled with letters and packages destined for summer residents in their southern Wisconsin lake houses.
    Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Whole armies could be hidden, fleets of warships could vanish on the high seas, and even whole cities could be built in the hinterland and kept secret.
    David Szondy May 31, New Atlas, 31 May 2025
  • Based on its silhouette, the researcher identified one of the warships as the Prince of Wales, positioned as the second ship in the single-line formation.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 May 2025
Noun
  • Its data suggests the volume of crude oil and products, including refined fuels, in floating storage on tankers for seven days or longer has risen over the past month by 14% to more than 160 million barrels.
    Gaurav Sharma, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
  • The tanker continued into the median, struck the median wall then continued west, approximately one-tenth of a mile, igniting on fire.
    Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 25 May 2025
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
  • 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

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“Steamship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steamship. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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