warship

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Recent Examples of warship The Houthis have carried out more than 100 attacks on merchant vessels and warships in the Red Sea beginning in November 2023, claiming the attacks were in support of Palestinians amid Israel's war in Gaza. Zac Anderson, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025 No warship has been struck yet, but the U.S. Navy has described the Houthi fire as the most intense combat its sailors have faced since World War II. Arkansas Online, 3 Apr. 2025 But even as China’s drills have intensified, and its missiles, warships and fighter jets have advanced, many experts have doubted that the Chinese military could cross the Taiwan Strait with the speed and numbers needed for a successful invasion. Chris Buckley, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2025 Latest footage released by the U.S. Central Command on X shows missiles were fired from a warship and fighter jets were launched from the Harry S. Truman to strike the Houthis. Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for warship
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Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Ross’ outside-of-the-box ingenuity also fueled a project by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans that found Ross shipping himself in a freighter crate that journeyed from Rhode Island to Alabama.
    Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The agency had said mission teams would inspect the freighter over the coming days to determine if Cygnus itself was still intact.
    Mike Wall, Space.com, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The barges appear to be connected in a continuous span, with the lead ship's ramp extended past the beach.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
  • In 2002, a freight barge struck a pier of Oklahoma’s Interstate 40 bridge after the towboat’s captain lost consciousness, collapsing a section of the bridge and killing 14.
    Marc Ramirez, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • With past tanker seizures straining relations between Tehran and Washington, the move could escalate tensions further.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025
  • But deploying firefighters, helicopters and water tankers is often based on human decisions.
    Devendra Goyal, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 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
  • McPherson preached aboard the ship, and its passengers, spellbound by her blossoming charisma and moved by her plight, gathered just enough funds to buy the young widow and her baby train tickets to New York City, where Minnie would meet them in the fall of 1910.
    Casey Cep, New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The Nimitz replaced sister ship USS Carl Vinson as the latter was retasked by the Pentagon from the region to the Middle East.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The aircraft took part in the Argentine military operation in January alongside a smaller C-12 surveillance plane and two corvette warships, according to the Argentine navy.
    Avery Schmitz, CNN, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The Russian ship under British surveillance, known as the corvette Boikiy, was escorting the merchant vessel the Baltic Leader on its voyage from Syria through the English Channel and North Sea.
    Russel Honoré, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025

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