How to Use steamship in a Sentence

steamship

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  • The steamship remained in place for the rest of the day, Oct. 24.
    — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
  • The corpse bobbed in the water as the steamship passed the western shore of Fire Island.
    — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The boilers and the surrounding walls are the bulk of what remains of the steamship.
    — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 19 Jan. 2018
  • The first steamship with a screw propeller, the Archimedes, had been built in Britain in 1839.
    — David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
  • The first iron-hulled steamship, the Aaron Manby, had crossed the English Channel in 1822.
    — David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
  • The steamship, believed to be the Pulaski, has been called the Titanic of the South.
    — Monitor Reviewers, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Her dad was a blacksmith, and her mom arrived in the U.S. in the steerage section of a steamship.
    — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 21 July 2023
  • From there, handlers loaded them in crates on a steamship.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2021
  • The turkeys are slipped into massive ovens in the morning, along with the steamship beef.
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Nov. 2021
  • The Savannah, named for the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean in 1819, was in every sense of the word a showcase.
    — Tony Long, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2008
  • The ship, built in Germany by the North German Lloyd line, was once the third-largest passenger steamship in the world.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 24 Apr. 2021
  • High winds blew two railroad baggage cars off the deck of a steamship and into the Gulf of Alaska.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Dec. 2022
  • The train to Seward and steamship to Seattle appeared only once a week.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2021
  • The steamship was bound for Nome, loaded with a fresh batch of fortune seekers, mail and cargo.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Dec. 2022
  • It was purchased before the trip to Africa by Meaher, who owned steamships, a sawmill and land in Mobile.
    — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2019
  • The show fits right into the Disney era, which helped wrench the wheel of the musical steamship toward the teen market.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Samuel Clemens lost a 19-month-old son to diptheria and a brother in a steamship explosion.
    — courant.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Marie by birch bark canoe, then by steamship and trains to Washington D.C.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2020
  • His father, Li Yuanjian, was a former cook on a steamship.
    — Amy Qin, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2020
  • Rather than letting the son die, Henson loaded him on a steamship and returned north.
    — Jared Brock, Smithsonian, 16 May 2018
  • Within a decade, the clippers had been largely eclipsed by steamships in global trade.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Not until you’ve experienced it from the deck of the William G. Mather steamship.
    — cleveland, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Their four-day journey began in Macon in 1848 and involved three legs each by train and steamship.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 27 Feb. 2021
  • The steamship rounds are laid out to carve alongside hazelnut-brown roasted turkeys.
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Nov. 2021
  • These were items on the dinner menu aboard the steamship Lusitania in September 1913.
    — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2018
  • The scandal crossed the Atlantic faster than any steamship, and Spiritualists around the world reeled.
    — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 24 May 2021
  • The Mississippi gave birth to these towns in steamship days, and its flooding over the years strangled many of their futures.
    — Paul Meincke, chicagotribune.com, 10 Aug. 2017
  • The McCulloch’s crew was safely rescued and taken aboard the steamship.
    — Washington Post, 13 June 2017
  • In December 1914, monster seas shoved a steamship carrying a cargo of Christmas toys into the pier, slicing both pier and oil pipeline in half.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024
  • Before Rouse, the same waterfront featured a steamship terminal and docks, and even at its 1979 groundbreaking, Harborplace was not seen as a sure thing.
    — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 6 Mar. 2024

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