How to Use aircraft carrier in a Sentence

aircraft carrier

noun

• That’s nearly 20 times its sticker price, but still a few billion less than an aircraft carrier.
  — Quanta Magazine, 3 Dec. 2021
• Vinny takes legal possession of the nuclear aircraft carrier of his choice.
  — Dave Barry, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Dec. 2021
• The Bruins have fed beluga whales at SeaWorld and toured a naval aircraft carrier.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2021
• The combined number of unvaccinated sailors and Marines is the equivalent of about four modern aircraft carrier crews.
  — Arkansas Online, 4 Dec. 2021
• Recent satellite images suggest China has been building a model of an American aircraft carrier in the desert to use as target practice.
  — Jerry Hendrix, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2021
• For comparison, the combined number of unvaccinated sailors and Marines is the equivalent of about four modern aircraft carrier crews.
  — Alex Horton, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Dec. 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
• It’s like seeing an aircraft carrier make a U-turn in a swimming pool.
  — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Those wings fold up, like the wings of a fighter jet on an aircraft carrier, to fit inside the payload envelope of its rocket.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 1 Nov. 2023
• Pruitt also perched a big wooden pallet on the bow that made his canoe look like an aircraft carrier.
  — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 5 Nov. 2023
• The Chinese military had struggled for decades to deploy a fleet of aircraft carriers that can compete with the U.S. and project power across the world’s oceans.
  — Brian Bennett, TIME, 5 June 2024
• Even an aircraft carrier has ten times more landing space.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 16 Mar. 2023
• Before becoming an astronaut, one of Wilmore's assignments in the Navy was to fly the service's new T-45 training jet off of an aircraft carrier for the first time.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 6 May 2024
• The Pentagon has gained access to multiple airfields and naval bases in the Philippines, lessening the need for aircraft carriers that could be targeted by China’s long-range missiles and submarines in a time of war.
  — John Ismay, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Oct 2024