steamship

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Recent Examples of steamship And, within about 48 hours, local vigilantes rounded up Chinese residents — hundreds of people — forced them onto steamships bound for San Francisco and told them to never return again. Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 26 Nov. 2024 Writer David Wolman tells a story that in many ways mirrors that of the Titanic: a giant gleaming steamship full of illustrious passengers, concerns over its safety drowned out by media buzz and undue faith in its engineering. Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 3 Dec. 2024 The discovery of the steamship Le Lyonnais was recently announced by Atlantic Wreck Salvage (AWS). Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2024 In the mid-nineteenth century, the drivers were the steamship, the undersea cable, and the railroad. Harold James, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021 See all Example Sentences for steamship 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for steamship
Noun
  • Vegetables, chicken, shrimp, firm or extra-firm tofu, and eggs are all excellent choices for sautéing. Steam: This technique involves cooking food in a steamer basket by placing it over boiling water, allowing the steam to cook it gently.
    Johna Burdeos, Health, 20 Jan. 2025
  • His father joined Zionist interests in Baltimore, contributing $50,000 to help purchase the former Old Bay Line steamer President Warfield, which in 1947 was renamed the Exodus, and transported more than 4,000 Holocaust survivors from France to Palestine, before being attacked by the British Navy.
    Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Blue Origin will attempt to land New Glenn’s first stage booster on a barge in the ocean 10 minutes after liftoff while its second stage heads into orbit.
    William Gavin, Quartz, 13 Jan. 2025
  • This month, construction crews on barges, drills, cranes, tugs and service vessels will begin drilling to collect soil samples and map subsurface waterways.
    Todd Karpovich, Baltimore Sun, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • All seven crew members aboard the freighter were Chinese nationals, the Taiwan coast guard said.
    Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Freight can be moved by coastal freighters and barges.
    U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Maritime Museum of San Diego seeks volunteers The nonprofit Maritime Museum of San Diego starts the next Docent Volunteer Training Program for newcomers Jan. 21 at the museum on the upper deck of the ferryboat Berkeley.
    Linda Mcintosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Jan. 2025
  • For example, when over 1,000 people died in a ferryboat accident in the Red Sea in 2006, critics accused the military of failing to deploy quickly enough to rescue them.
    Jeff Martini, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2011
Noun
  • The world now faces converging threats: China is carrying out the largest peacetime military buildup since Nazi Germany’s, producing warships, combat aircraft, and missiles five to six times as fast as the United States can.
    Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
  • In 1988 during the Iran-Iraq War, the U.S. warship the Vincennes shot down an Iran Air flight over the Gulf, killing all 290 people on board.
    Nailia Bagirova and Gleb Stolaryov, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Kevin McCullough, president of Aero Air, which also provides air tankers, sent some of its MD-87s to the Los Angeles fires.
    Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 25 Jan. 2025
  • The firefighters drew water from a tanker truck instead of a nearby hydrant.
    Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • These preyed upon American merchantmen who either payed tribute or showed forged British passes.
    Thomas Wendel, National Review, 4 July 2019
  • The Navy already has ships in the fleet that are former merchantmen.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2019
Noun
  • Nassau had no men-of-war ships, and Trott’s stone fort was still a building site.
    Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
  • My hundred-and-forty-foot man-of-war sought to make the first mission to the South Pole, a feat that would bring pride to England.
    Mike O’Brien, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023

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