warship

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Recent Examples of warship The Big Story More US bomber aircraft, warships heading to Middle East Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered more warplanes and Navy ships to the Middle East to maintain U.S. presence in the region as an aircraft carrier strike group is preparing to leave, the Pentagon announced Friday. Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 2 Nov. 2024 Another destroyer operates in the Red Sea with U.S. warships. Jasmine Baehr, Fox News, 1 Nov. 2024 Recent transits by warships from Britain, Canada, France, Australia and Germany have also reinforced this principle. Anthony Trotter, ABC News, 25 Sep. 2024 Premiering in April 2023, the first season concluded with Russell learning that the British prime minister is responsible for an attack on a British warship that brought her to the U.K. Showrunner and creator Debora Cahn has confirmed that season 2 will follow Kate's attempt to prove it. Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for warship 
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Noun
  • Michigan Shipwreck Research Association That discovery was announced just weeks after the 1886 wreck of the steamship Milwaukee was found more than 350 feet below the surface in Lake Michigan.
    CBS News, CBS News, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The expedition team's next target using the Hydrus technology is the wreck of the luxury passenger steamship SS Koombana, which disappeared somewhere off Port Hedland en route to Broome during a tropical cyclone in 1912, with 150 on board presumed to have perished.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Apr. 2024
Noun
  • Deliveries of all 737 Max planes as well as freighter models have been halted by the strike.
    Chris Isidore, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The Max, as well as two freighter models, the 777F and 767F, are built in unionized plants shut down by the strike.
    Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 19 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The Federal Aviation Administration also temporarily grounded the Falcon 9 fleet after one of its reusable boosters fell over and burned while landing on an offshore barge in the Atlantic Ocean.
    Laurence Darmiento, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2024
  • On Thursday, a large barge could be seen working out near the pier, where the contractor Manson Construction is setting up to restart the sand replenishment project as early as next week.
    Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 31 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Of course not, but the captain has told the wheelhouse to turn the supper tanker.
    Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • The tanker, however, will remain empty of any nuclear materials during its three-week test run.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2024
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
  • During the rapprochement between China and the United States in the 1970s (which followed the split between China and the Soviet Union), North Korea hosted Soviet naval ships in its ports and allowed Soviet fighter jets to enter North Korean airspace.
    Sungmin Cho, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Officials received spa treatments, top-shelf alcohol, designer handbags, leather goods, designer furniture, watches, fountain pens, ornamental swords and handmade ship models, according to court documents.
    Elias Lopez, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • The real showstopper here is the life-sized pink corvette parked on the fourth floor of the museum, which guests can sit inside for a selfie.
    Nadja Sayej, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
  • Its maritime arm dispatched frigates and corvettes to patrol the coastal waters with little event.
    Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2024

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