steamship

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Recent Examples of steamship That’s what was being asked — for days — after the White Star Line’s famous steamship Titanic hit an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025 Told in first-person narrative with archival photos, the 225-page coffee-table book covers the family’s many setbacks and triumphs dating back to the early 1890s, when Jessop’s great-grandparents arrived in San Diego via steamship, rail and horsedrawn buggy. David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025 The wooden steamship — which measured 95 feet and weighed 82 gross tons — was built in 1873 in Stockton, New South Wales, according to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2025 In 1925, Evangelina Rodríguez stepped off a steamship in her hometown of San Pedro de Macorís. Laura Gómez, Scientific American, 26 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for steamship
Recent Examples of Synonyms for steamship
Noun
  • However, relief is at hand, as there are easier ways to de-wrinkle your clothes that don’t involve using an iron or a steamer.
    Maryal Miller Carter, USA Today, 2 May 2025
  • Don’t: Bring a portable steamer Instead: Pack wrinkle release spray $8 at Amazon Wrinkle release spray is my secret weapon for keeping vacation outfits looking smooth and fresh without a lot of work.
    Rylee Johnston, Travel + Leisure, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • These technologies include a bubble barrier that removes small fish trapped under barges or carried in their wake and an acoustic deterrent that creates painful sound waves.
    Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 10 May 2025
  • This nighttime parade features beautifully decorated barges that glide along the San Antonio River.
    Jill Robbins, Southern Living, 16 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • That was the day a freighter called the Summit Venture hit the southbound span of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 May 2025
  • The report said that air carriers including Air China, China Cargo Airline and China Southern Airlines are among those planning to cancel freighter services between China and the U.S.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 1 May 2025
Noun
  • The alternative would have been a full scrapping, which is what befell another Staten Island ferryboat, the Andrew J. Barberi.
    E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 10 May 2025
  • As a teenager, Ellen Dare Burling had an unusual summer job: Jumping off a moving ferryboat onto wooden piers, her arms filled with letters and packages destined for summer residents in their southern Wisconsin lake houses.
    Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • For the two European warships, the Spey is one of two Royal Navy vessels deployed to the Indo-Pacific region.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 May 2025
  • At the time, officials said the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, a coalition of U.S. warships deployed to the Red Sea, and an air wing remained fully mission-capable.
    Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2025
Noun
  • Given the vessel's lack of nationality, the use of force including boarding the vessel was deemed unnecessary and the tanker was escorted out of the Estonian Economic Exclusion Zone.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
  • More than 50 activists including Greta Thunberg briefly held a demonstration inside the Copenhagen office of Maersk’s tankers division Tuesday.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 14 May 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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“Steamship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steamship. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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