How to Use steamship in a Sentence

steamship

noun

• The steamship remained in place for the rest of the day, Oct. 24.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2023
• The corpse bobbed in the water as the steamship passed the western shore of Fire Island.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023
• The boilers and the surrounding walls are the bulk of what remains of the steamship.
  — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 19 Jan. 2018
• The first steamship with a screw propeller, the Archimedes, had been built in Britain in 1839.
  — David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
• The first iron-hulled steamship, the Aaron Manby, had crossed the English Channel in 1822.
  — David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
• The steamship, believed to be the Pulaski, has been called the Titanic of the South.
  — Monitor Reviewers, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Mar. 2021
• Her dad was a blacksmith, and her mom arrived in the U.S. in the steerage section of a steamship.
  — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 21 July 2023
• From there, handlers loaded them in crates on a steamship.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2021
• The turkeys are slipped into massive ovens in the morning, along with the steamship beef.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Nov. 2021
• The ship, built in Germany by the North German Lloyd line, was once the third-largest passenger steamship in the world.
  — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 24 Apr. 2021
• High winds blew two railroad baggage cars off the deck of a steamship and into the Gulf of Alaska.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Dec. 2022
• The train to Seward and steamship to Seattle appeared only once a week.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2021
• The steamship was bound for Nome, loaded with a fresh batch of fortune seekers, mail and cargo.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Dec. 2022
• It was purchased before the trip to Africa by Meaher, who owned steamships, a sawmill and land in Mobile.
  — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2019
• The show fits right into the Disney era, which helped wrench the wheel of the musical steamship toward the teen market.
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2023
• Samuel Clemens lost a 19-month-old son to diptheria and a brother in a steamship explosion.
  — courant.com, 31 Oct. 2019
• Marie by birch bark canoe, then by steamship and trains to Washington D.C.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Aug. 2020
• His father, Li Yuanjian, was a former cook on a steamship.
  — Amy Qin, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2020
• Rather than letting the son die, Henson loaded him on a steamship and returned north.
  — Jared Brock, Smithsonian, 16 May 2018
• Not until you’ve experienced it from the deck of the William G. Mather steamship.
  — cleveland, 4 Aug. 2021
• Their four-day journey began in Macon in 1848 and involved three legs each by train and steamship.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 27 Feb. 2021
• The steamship rounds are laid out to carve alongside hazelnut-brown roasted turkeys.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Nov. 2021
• These were items on the dinner menu aboard the steamship Lusitania in September 1913.
  — Craig Hlavaty, Houston Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2018
• The scandal crossed the Atlantic faster than any steamship, and Spiritualists around the world reeled.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 24 May 2021
• The Mississippi gave birth to these towns in steamship days, and its flooding over the years strangled many of their futures.
  — Paul Meincke, chicagotribune.com, 10 Aug. 2017
• The sub has little trouble blowing the steamship out of the water, but that leaves 26 Belgian soldiers stranded in a pair of lifeboats.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 30 Aug. 2023
• The threat of Mahkota still looms and there are even some attempts get the British Navy to lend a steamship to go upriver and conquer the enemy.
  — Lindsey Bahr, Star Tribune, 2 June 2021
• In 1918, rats escaping a capsized steamship swam ashore.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2017
• Image To many, landline phones have come to seem as essential as steamships and telegrams in the smartphone era.
  — Michael Levenson, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2024
• But after being put into wartime service, the fates of the twin steamships Delta King and Delta Queen diverged wildly.
  — Bill Van Niekerken, SFChronicle.com, 10 July 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024