How to Use aircraft carrier in a Sentence

aircraft carrier

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  • 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
  • The Kitty Hawk was the next-to-last U.S. aircraft carrier built to run on diesel fuel.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Jan. 2022
  • To boot, the scene is on an aircraft carrier with jets careening to stops on the platform.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Syracuse and San Diego State should find a way to play their first-round game on an aircraft carrier, just for old times’ sake.
    — Josh Newman, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 Mar. 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
  • France has announced a new aircraft carrier will replace the Charles de Gaulle in 2038.
    — James Marson, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2020
  • It’s like seeing an aircraft carrier make a U-turn in a swimming pool.
    — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The planes or drones deployed this week would have been based in the Persian Gulf or on the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan nearby.
    — New York Times, 23 July 2021
  • There's a shot of Kong and Godzilla both standing on an aircraft carrier.
    — Rhett Allain, Wired, 7 Apr. 2021
  • One of the sailors deserted the aircraft carrier, which is docked in a Virginia shipyard, about five months ago; the other fled in March 2021.
    — Melissa Chan, NBC News, 19 May 2022
  • In the video, two Navy F-18 fighter jet pilots from the aircraft carrier Nimitz chase a white oval object the size of a commercial plane.
    — Katie Bo Williams and Zachary Cohen, CNN, 15 June 2021
  • 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
  • Would Paramount bring an aircraft carrier to the south of France for the festivities?
    — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2022
  • But the idea of setting up an aircraft carrier to host a baseball game has been floated out there before.
    — Joe Noga, cleveland, 31 Jan. 2022
  • The Soviets laid the keel of their first full-size aircraft carrier, the future Admiral Kuznetsov, in 1982.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 15 Apr. 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
  • But that would have been like turning the un-turnable, like turning an aircraft carrier around.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • The footage shows two angles of the incident from separate cameras, and both show the jet on approach to the aircraft carrier.
    — Brad Lendon and Ivan Watson, CNN, 7 Feb. 2022
  • This might lead to calls for adding an additional aircraft carrier to the fleet, for a total of 12 worldwide.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2022
  • On Monday, China deployed one of its three aircraft carriers, the Shandong, to the Taiwan strait.
    — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 12 Sep. 2023
  • The ribbon of land on the western side had room for miles of runway—an unsinkable aircraft carrier.
    — Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
  • 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
  • That aircraft carrier that Kong is standing on has a mass of 100 million kilograms.
    — Rhett Allain, Wired, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Less than two years old, the Curtiss was described as an aircraft carrier for seaplanes, essential to the front line if war broke out in the Pacific.
    — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
  • China has a total of more than 370 ships and submarines in service, including the world's second-largest aircraft carrier fleet.
    — Ryan Chan, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024

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