How to Use minesweeper in a Sentence

minesweeper

noun

• The minesweepers were made of steel, but the Satellite’s hull was wooden.
  — Lauren McCarthy, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
• The Navy built its first modern minesweeper during the 1940s.
  — Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 9 Aug. 2019
• The minesweepers are made of steel while the Satellite was a wooden hulled vessel.
  — Stephen Smith, CBS News, 13 July 2023
• Belgium and the Netherlands will soon need to retire more than a dozen of their frigates and minesweepers.
  — Elisabeth Braw, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2017
• Colvin, along with survivors from the Keith and a sunken British minesweeper, were taken aboard the St. Abbs.
  — Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 21 July 2017
• The Navy has fewer than a dozen minesweepers, many in disrepair.
  — T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 17 Jan. 2020
• Those vessels, which were minesweepers, saw a much grimmer fate than the Satellite.
  — Lauren McCarthy, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
• Boyd served in the Royal Navy and was aboard a minesweeper during the Normandy invasion.
  — Washington Post, latimes.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• And France agreed to send minesweepers to help them with the operation, a U.A.E. official said.
  — Dion Nissenbaum, WSJ, 14 June 2018
• In an ideal world the Avenger-class minesweepers would have been decommissioned years ago.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Aug. 2019
• China's Defense Ministry said its armed forces had dispatched two frigates, a minesweeper and two fighter jets to warn the Stethem away.
  — chicagotribune.com, 3 July 2017
• China’s Defense Ministry said its armed forces had dispatched two frigates, a minesweeper and two fighter jets to warn the Stethem away.
  — Simon Denyer, Washington Post, 3 July 2017
• If the station still isn’t found, the nearby navy base has offered to help with its minesweepers and other scanning technologies.
  — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 9 Sep. 2019
• With the new information, Gates and the historical society went out onto the lake aboard the David Boyd, a research vessel, to try to find the minesweepers.
  — Frank Witsil, USA TODAY, 18 July 2023
• The American fleet no longer has the number of large frigates that worked the Persian Gulf in the 1980s, often serving as ad hoc minesweepers thanks to their girth and reinforced hulls, Brennan said.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, latimes.com, 18 June 2019
• The minesweepers and the Satellite were about the same in length, said Lynn, prompting the hope that the researchers might have finally located one of the minesweepers in September after decades of searching.
  — Lauren McCarthy, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
• The Emiratis are arranging minesweepers, cranes and other equipment to repair the port after its capture.
  — Asa Fitch, WSJ, 8 July 2018
• Aside from screening for car bombs and acting as a mobile barricade with a top speed of just over 6 mph, his machine’s 12-foot-wide blade will also act as a de-facto minesweeper.
  — Mustafa Salim, Washington Post, 29 May 2017
• Of those, about 550 wrecks — most of which haven't been located, including the two French minesweepers — are preserved in Lake Superior's icy waters.
  — Frank Witsil, USA TODAY, 18 July 2023
• Theoretically, 30 Knifefish packages should give the Navy the ability to surge a large number of mine-hunting ships at a time when their minesweepers are in bad shape.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 Aug. 2019
• The ship would function as a local, seagoing base for a wide variety of forces, including special forces, small Cyclone-class coastal patrol boats, and even minesweepers.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 Jan. 2018
• Kubb was an Army veteran who served as a radio operator on a minesweeper during the Korean War.
  — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 20 Dec. 2021
• Russia’s other long-term Syrian lease is for the naval base at Tartus, where Moscow bases destroyers, frigates, submarines, minesweepers and other ships.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 30 July 2017
• Vapor trails in the sky, the nightly flicker of anti-aircraft fire; rumors of barges massing along the coast of Holland, Kriegsmarine minesweepers probing the Channel defenses.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 31 Mar. 2018
• In 2007, China denied access to another aircraft carrier, the Kitty Hawk, as well as two minesweepers.
  — Michael S. Schmidt and Michael Forsythe, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2016
• The Condor, a minesweeper, found a Japanese submarine in restricted waters just before the attack.
  — Natalie Dreier, ajc, 28 May 2018
• Two other large, disabled boats, a lighthouse tender and a minesweeper, now sit alongside the Aurora, fueling concern that the channel is becoming a graveyard for ghost ships.
  — Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Oct. 2020
• The American Navy deployed its own minesweepers and, eventually, European countries sent some, as well.
  — Helene Cooper, New York Times, 28 June 2019
• An obsolete minesweeper in WW2, a disheveled crew, a cowardly captain, with loyalty and reason in contest.
  — Riza Cruz, ELLE, 13 Sep. 2022
• The merchant ships will not have a military escort, but a minesweeper could be deployed if there are any issues with mines, U.N. officials said during a briefing before the deal was officially announced.
  — Mo Abbas, NBC News, 22 July 2022

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024