How to Use landing craft in a Sentence

landing craft

noun
  • One, the landing craft Hawaya, came at night on June 1.
    Jon Gambrell, Star Tribune, 15 June 2021
  • There is a landing craft that ferried men to the beach on D-Day.
    Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2020
  • French swam six to eight hours until the sailors were saved by a landing craft.
    Jeremy Beaman, Washington Examiner, 28 Apr. 2021
  • The well deck is where the ship stores and stages amphibious landing craft.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 June 2021
  • TB-2s in mid-May sank one Russian landing craft at the pier on the island.
    David Axe, Forbes, 26 May 2022
  • Many of the landing craft got hung up on the coral, and the Marines had to get out and wade through chest-high water toward the shore.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2019
  • The ship will be designed to launch and recover landing craft from the sea.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2022
  • The landing craft got a signal in mid-Channel to go to Saint Malo.
    Vogue, 11 Sep. 2023
  • That’s a lot of ship, not to mention the crewed and uncrewed aircraft, landing craft, and the Marines equipment aboard.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 12 July 2022
  • Lambert took a bullet through the elbow just as the landing craft's ramp opened to deposit the men.
    CBS News, 4 June 2019
  • Equipment had to be shipped in on an ex–Royal Navy landing craft.
    Oliver Smith, Outside Online, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Goodall, of Chicago, was due to come ashore with the second wave of landing craft; one of his friends had been assigned with the third wave.
    Kim Willsher, latimes.com, 4 June 2019
  • Ukraine also claimed to have destroyed a Serna-class Russian landing craft in the Black Sea with a drone strike.
    Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2022
  • Built to order from aluminum, the new landing craft takes as little as six months to complete.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 18 Nov. 2022
  • About 3 miles offshore, a landing craft dropped Bucklew and his team off to make runs along the beach at 2 a.m., while British ships poured rockets into the beach.
    cincinnati.com, 26 May 2022
  • Today, both the Australian and the U.S. landing craft proposals align.
    Craig Hooper, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • The landing craft is the latest addition to Roam’s fleet of go-anywhere vessels.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 18 Nov. 2022
  • In the 1980s, she was identified as an upturned landing craft, like the ones in Saving Private Ryan.
    Joshua Levine, Smithsonian, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The letter describes how Woodson was wounded while still on his landing craft but spent the next 30 hours saving lives on the beach.
    Washington Post, 4 July 2019
  • The gateway is a mini-space station that will orbit the Moon and serve as a base for astronauts and landing craft.
    Lee Roop | Lroop@al.com, al, 31 Oct. 2019
  • The landing craft had at one point been so far underwater that the park service sent divers to the site beginning in 2006.
    Christian Martinezstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2022
  • The Higgins landing craft that had long been 185 feet below the surface is nearly halfway out of the water.
    Julius Lasin, USA TODAY, 11 July 2022
  • The next day, when the chaplain charged out of his landing craft, the beach was littered with Marine casualties.
    Frank Fitzpatrick, Philly.com, 14 Apr. 2018
  • Navy and Army units practiced the loading and unloading of combat teams and equipment from dozens of types of landing craft.
    Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2019
  • The Higgins landing craft that has long been 185 feet below the surface is now nearly halfway out of the water at Lake Mead.
    Arkansas Online, 2 July 2022
  • The plan is for a landing craft to lower itself from the orbiter and gently plop itself down on the powdery moon surface.
    Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 14 July 2019
  • Then the ramp of their landing craft came down and the German defenses were very much still in operation.
    John Wilkens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2019
  • The weapon was spotted on an old Chinese Navy landing craft in Wuhan and images of it quickly spread across the Internet.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Guillermo Perez, 20, was killed when his landing craft took on water off San Clemente Island.
    Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 3 Aug. 2020
  • D-Day landing craft, boats and seagoing and infantry vessels.
    Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 5 June 2019

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