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
  • And weighs on the franchise like an anchor on a container ship.
    Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 22 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • There is a sly reference to the name of the container ship in the form of the face of mustachioed artist Salvador Dali.
    Amy Davis, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2024
  • In most cases, the arrival of a container ship in a port isn’t the result of short-term planning.
    al, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Not the one Tuesday that grounded a massive container ship in front of this tiny hamlet on the edge of the Suez Canal.
    Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Much of Alaska's food comes up by container ship over the water.
    Annie Zak, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2018
  • Then the 985-foot container ship Dali slammed into one of the bridge’s support pillars.
    Hau Chu, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
  • 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
  • This week’s trivia question: When did the first container ship sail through the Golden Gate?
    Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 12 July 2019
  • As for drugs, the Coast Guard says 95 percent of them arrive in container ships or other boats.
    Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • The quest started late because a container ship came through.
    Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
  • Last year, Cosco’s first electric container ship set sail from Yangzhou port.
    Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 June 2024
  • 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
  • Zhang agreed and arranged to send the shipment from Qingdao via container ship, at a price of $3,000 per kilogram.
    Alex W. Palmer, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Seven people died when the Fitzgerald struck a container ship back in June.
    Kayla Turnbow, Houston Chronicle, 5 May 2018
  • There are stories of the sailboat that collided with a container ship unseen in the fog.
    John Branch, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Philly Shipyard is building up to four new container ships to transport goods between the West Coast and Hawaii.
    Linda Loyd, Philly.com, 25 Sep. 2017
  • The state imports nearly all of its food, mostly on container ships.
    Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Dredging crews are moving massive amounts of sand to free a skyscraper-size container ship stuck in the Suez Canal, one of the world’s busiest shipping routes.
    USA Today, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Video footage captured the container ship hitting the bridge after appearing to lose power two times.
    Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The Port of Baltimore, which was briefly shut by the collapse of the Key Bridge when it was hit by a container ship earlier this year, handles the nation’s largest volume of auto imports.
    Chris Isidore and Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 26 Sep. 2024

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