How to Use aircraft carrier in a Sentence

aircraft carrier

noun

• And that amid this confusion, an anti-ship missile would be fired at an aircraft carrier.
  — Jim Wilson, Popular Mechanics, 22 Apr. 2021
• There's a shot of Kong and Godzilla both standing on an aircraft carrier.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 7 Apr. 2021
• That aircraft carrier that Kong is standing on has a mass of 100 million kilograms.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 7 Apr. 2021
• China’s first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, took part, as did a significant number of vessels from China’s coast guard, the largest in the world.
  — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Oct. 2024
• The landing is perhaps the first video sourced from outside of Chinese state media to show operations on China’s first aircraft carrier.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 Apr. 2021
• China is putting the final coat of paint on a dock in the East African nation of Djibouti that is large enough to host its nuclear submarines and aircraft carrier.
  — Abraham Mahshie, Washington Examiner, 26 Apr. 2021
• At the same time, the first-ever Chinese aircraft carrier group has started exercises near Taiwan and has said such drills will become regular.
  — Benjamin Hall, Fox News, 6 Apr. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• One day, not far from port, Ivan’s boat passed 50 meters from an American aircraft carrier that looked straight out of Hollywood.
  — Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024