How to Use warship in a Sentence
warship
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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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