How to Use amphibious in a Sentence

amphibious

adjective
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  • The group said the man was a soldier on board the USS Wasp, an amphibious assault ship.
    — Reuters, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2024
  • With help from local firefighters, every single one of them (plus their pets!) were transported to drier land via rafts, airboats, and amphibious vehicles.
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 10 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the event of a Chinese amphibious assault, drones could help Taiwan, as well.
    — Mark A. Milley, Foreign Affairs, 5 Aug. 2024
  • 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 Black Sea Fleet was poised to attempt an amphibious landing around Odesa.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • With Russian ships driven far from Ukrainian shores, the threat of an amphibious attack is gone.
    — Mark Cancian, Foreign Affairs, 8 Feb. 2024
  • In 2020, eight Marines and a sailor were killed when their assault amphibious vehicle broke down and sank near San Clemente Island.
    — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2022
  • The 370-foot-long ship that Ukraine claimed to have sunk on Tuesday, the Novocherkassk, is designed to land troops and vehicles during amphibious assaults.
    — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2023
  • The Marine Corps was unable to assist victims of the earthquakes in Turkey just a few months ago because the Navy lacked enough amphibious ships.
    — Michael Lee, Fox News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • That is wonderful news: Four or five (or six) years from now, a walk in the park might be a less amphibious experience.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 12 May 2021
  • After that, China's navy — which now rivals the U.S.'s in strength — would send an armada across the strait to mount a huge amphibious assault.
    — The Week Staff, The Week, 4 Dec. 2022
  • It's website said a ride on the amphibious ultralight gives a customer a bird's eye view of the lakes and land and the experience of touching down on the water.
    — CBS News, 3 Sep. 2022
  • Since the start of the Ukraine invasion, Russia has kept its amphibious ships parked off the coast of Ukrainian cities, apparently afraid to come ashore.
    — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022
  • How did an amphibious landing boat once assigned to the Monrovia end up at the bottom of the state’s largest drinking water reservoir?
    — Corinne Purtillstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2022

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