How to Use cruise ship in a Sentence

cruise ship

noun
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  • In addition to their regular activities and services, resorts are kind of like cruise ship in that there’s always something going on.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 21 Sep. 2024
  • Leading the way were banks, airlines, cruise ship operators and other companies whose profits can benefit the most from a stronger economy.
    — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Just be sure to get there early to beat the cruise ship crowds.
    — Rondel Holder, Travel + Leisure, 1 Aug. 2023
  • This, mind you, was not a cruise ship meant to loaf around the Caribbean.
    — Brittany Murray/medianews Group/long Beach Press-Telegram Via Getty Images, Curbed, 19 Jan. 2024
  • At one time, the Queen Mary was dubbed the world’s fastest and most luxurious cruise ship.
    — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The first, and still only American woman at the helm of a mega cruise ship.
    — Lisa Lutoff-Perlo, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The creators made the destruction of the cruise ship by nanofibers appalling and gruesome.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 9 Aug. 2024
  • As the couple leave Lisbon to board a cruise ship, Bella’s looks get more ad hoc.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 6 Jan. 2024
  • This year’s season is expected to bring a record-high number of cruise ship tourists to the state.
    — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Icon of the Seas: Can the world’s largest cruise ship really be climate-friendly?
    — David Leonhardt, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Some towns, though, are best reached by cruise ship — and Minnesota, of all places, has one of the country’s finest small-town ports.
    — Sarah Cahalan, Travel + Leisure, 13 July 2024
  • The biggest news on the high seas, however, was the debut of the biggest cruise ship to ever set sail.
    — Terry Ward, TIME, 25 July 2024
  • These are the benefits of booking some of the largest and most sumptuous cruise ship suites.
    — Scott Laird, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Martin and Giglio met aboard a Carnival cruise ship in 2022.
    — Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 31 Aug. 2024
  • The crew on the world's largest cruise ship, the Icon of the Seas, helped rescue 14 people who were clinging to a small boat this week, officials said.
    — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Passengers on smaller ships are more likely to feel every wave and bump that hits the side of the cruise ship.
    — Megan Dubois, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 May 2024
  • After being reached by the cruise ship, Robinson had to climb naked up a rope ladder hanging from the boat’s side, per The Times.
    — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Pierre said even though the cruise ship tourists didn’t come to the city itself, there are a lot of vendors who depend on cruises to earn a living.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 6 May 2024
  • To the seas, a cruise ship is nothing more than a leaf drifting effortlessly along the surface.
    — Melanie Lieberman, Travel + Leisure, 14 Mar. 2023
  • During the rescue attempt, as the rescue crew was hoisting a cruise ship nurse, a severe squall forced the crew to move the Jayhawk away from the ship.
    — Warren Kulo | Wkulo@al.com, al, 3 May 2023
  • Four Seasons has already revealed what its first cruise ship will look like.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2024
  • In New York, a cruise ship terminal was turned into a shelter.
    — Colleen Long, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Nov. 2023
  • One only needs to search for the words 'outbreak' and 'cruise ship' to find examples of one of the most notorious: norovirus.
    — Rachel Murphy, Verywell Health, 5 Apr. 2024
  • This floating Olympic Village is part cruise ship, part cargo ship.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 July 2024
  • The cruise ship continued its trip to Spain on Sunday night after returning to the Ramsgate area for the search.
    — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 24 Oct. 2023
  • The highlight of my career, so far, has been sailing on the first cruise ship crossing of the fabled Northwest Passage.
    — Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 6 Dec. 2023
  • That being to become the very first American female captain of a large cruise ship.
    — Douglass MacKinnon, Special To The Orlando Sentinel, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2023
  • The world’s largest cruise ship, Royal Caribbean’s new Icon of the Seas, can set sail with 7,600 passengers onboard.
    — Scott Laird, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Now, starting May 7, the cruise ship is slated to undergo five days of sea trials ahead of its launch this summer.
    — Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 8 May 2024
  • On a recent afternoon, young boys raced across the wide decks that run the length of the Gemini, a cruise ship floating off the coast of southern Turkey.
    — Nimet Kirac Sergey Ponomarev, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023

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