How to Use warship in a Sentence

warship

noun
  • Reuters was first to report the warship shot down the drone.
    Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 15 Nov. 2023
  • The warship, launched in 1854, was the last sail-only ship built by the Navy.
    Amy Davis, Baltimore Sun, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The warship had been sailing near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait at the time of the attack.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The game was played three times, on a retired Swedish warship.
    Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • The Chinese navy has the greatest number of warships in the world.
    David Lammy, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2024
  • The great gray warship was to the recording device as a barn of hay is to a needle.
    Marguerite Holloway, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2021
  • For a few minutes on a summer’s day in 1628, the Vasa warship was the pride of Sweden.
    David Nikel, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
  • The fire destroyed most of the ship and, late last year, the Navy decided not to repair the 844-foot warship.
    Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Al Jazeera reported that the missile was fired from a warship in the White Sea.
    Fox News, 20 July 2021
  • Hezbollah struck an Israeli warship in the Lebanon war in 2006.
    New York Times, 15 Apr. 2022
  • There were armed guards around the parking lot and an Indian Navy warship off the coast.
    Damien Cave, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • The story of the shipwreck of an 18th century British warship and a mutiny among the survivors.
    The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The story of the shipwreck of an 18th-century British warship and a mutiny among the survivors.
    The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2024
  • This was mirrored across the country, and a warship was sent up the Mersey to protect food supplies.
    Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2022
  • The story of the shipwreck of an 18th century British warship and a mutiny among the survivors.
    The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2024
  • The story of the shipwreck of an 18th century British warship and a mutiny among the survivors.
    The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
  • The story of the shipwreck of an 18th century British warship and a mutiny among the survivors.
    The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024
  • The warship had been on patrol 20 miles from the pier at Bangsaphan district in Prachuap Khiri Khan province.
    Arkansas Online, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The crew burned the remains of the warship to make sure its guns did not fall into enemy hands.
    Stephen Smith, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The rebels also fired missiles in the Red Sea that have come near an American warship in the past.
    Samy Magdy, ajc, 16 Apr. 2022
  • The film follows the journey of a soldier who awakens aboard a warship.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 10 May 2024
  • Only 10% of the ocean floor is properly mapped, and mountain ranges and canyons dwarf even the largest warship.
    Alexander Wooley, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The story of the shipwreck of an 18th-century British warship.
    The California Independent Booksellers Alliance, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Particularly in the 1570s, there was war with Spain, and the need to build big warships with big timbers.
    Matt Simon, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Despite having no warships of its own, Ukraine has over the course of the war shifted the balance of power in the naval conflict.
    Marc Santora, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
  • The crew was planning to cross the Atlantic to Spain, but a British warship intercepted it.
    Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Exactly how Ukraine found the warship, 74 miles off the Black Sea coast, has until now been a mystery.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Last week, Ukrainian forces blew up the Russian warship Orsk, which had docked in southern Ukraine.
    Arkansas Online, 2 Apr. 2022
  • Even an attempt at a suicide attack failed because the men couldn’t reach a U.S. warship to ram.
    Chieko Tsuneoka, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The roughly one-minute video shows fighter jets, warships and amphibious assault vessels in the air and at sea, and mobile missile launchers being moved into place.
    Wayne Chang, CNN, 14 Oct. 2024

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