How to Use container ship in a Sentence

container ship

noun

• And a container ship stuck in the Chesapeake Bay for more than a month has been freed.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2022
• What else has started off on a container ship and wound up in the ocean?
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
• Among the last, Rockman paints a container ship and a Cuban refugee raft.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
• The container ship that had an extended stay in the Suez Canal is now free.
  — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 29 Mar. 2021
• At the time of its construction the Emma Maersk was the largest container ship in the world.
  — Katherine Ott, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2023
• And then it gets put on a container ship, goes to an importer and a table gets made.
  — Jamie Hailstone, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021
• The container ship blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week in March before being dislodged from the banks of the canal.
  — Benoit Faucon, WSJ, 23 June 2021
• In most cases, the arrival of a container ship in a port isn’t the result of short-term planning.
  — al, 20 Jan. 2023
• Stuck since Tuesday, the container ship has become a parable of the risks of megaships.
  — David Clark Scott, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2021
• By the way, what’s the air quality - container ship thing about anyhow?
  — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
• Remember that giant container ship that got jammed in the Suez Canal in March?
  — Jon Dwoskin, Forbes, 25 May 2021
• On Tuesday, the Houthis struck another container ship—and the U.S. fired at four more sites where missiles were about to be fired.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2024
• Last year, as land borders were closed to nonessential goods, the tree traveled by container ship.
  — Emily D'alessandro, CBS News, 25 Dec. 2021
• There are stories of the sailboat that collided with a container ship unseen in the fog.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• The next month, a giant container ship got stuck in the Suez Canal, blocking one of the world’s main commercial arteries for six days.
  — Washington Post, 26 July 2021
• The image is inspired by the 2015 sinking of the El Faro, a container ship lost during Hurricane Joaquin.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2023
• The container ship that blocked the Suez Canal has been freed, but the accident could have a lasting impact on the shipping industry.
  — CNN, 30 Mar. 2021
• Even so, a container ship to a whale may sound like a speaker-proximal seat at a rock concert—and though the fan has chosen to be that close to the clamor, the whale has not.
  — Marguerite Holloway, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2021
• Nobody wants to watch a container ship attacked with a bomb, so the Air Force must depict the target as secretly armed.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2022
• The pinnacle has been the Ocean series, featuring whiskeys that are stowed onboard a container ship to travel around the world.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 8 Apr. 2022
• Suddenly, a moving gray wall appeared through the moving gray of fog: a container ship.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
• For workers struggling to free the stuck container ship, the extra 18 inches of high tide that the Moon would generate seemed like their best chance at yanking it free.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 30 Mar. 2021
• Typically, sources say, a container ship calling at Oakland would spend 18 hours in and out of the Golden Gate.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2021
• Nearly nine months after the Ever Forward, a 1,096-foot container ship, ran aground in the Chesapeake Bay, it is now known who was piloting the ship.
  — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 6 Dec. 2022
• West Coast ports, where most of the nation's imports arrive by container ship, are still congested, too.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 7 Oct. 2022
• In the meantime, companies are trying to squeeze more goods onto each container ship.
  — Amy Feldman, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2022
• Every able container ship was pulled into service in a Dunkirk-like scramble to reach U.S. consumers.
  — David Pierson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2021
• Pieces of the bridge still blocked off the Patapsco River, and partially submerged girders still flanked the huge container ship that smashed into the bridge on Tuesday.
  — Scott Neuman, NPR, 31 Mar. 2024
• Today, a shipment might sit at the winery for several weeks while an importer tries to reserve space on a container ship.
  — Washington Post, 11 June 2021
• The massive container ship left stranded and blocking the Suez Canal was finally floated and cleared from the waterway.
  — CNN, 4 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024