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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Saree also claimed a drone attack on a U.S. warship in the region.
    — Jon Gambrell, Quartz, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The warship, which has operated out of San Diego for decades, had been slated to go out of service in March.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2023
  • Defense attorneys say the Navy is looking for someone to blame for the loss of a $1 billion warship.
    — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Other images showed sailors from the warship in a life raft, having jumped from the sinking vessel.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 19 Dec. 2022
  • As the warship sank, the captain of the attacking ship, the U-53, radioed to the US base in Queenstown with the approximate location.
    — Jenny Gross, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The 684-foot Navy warship stands out from the other vessels that pull into Port Everglades.
    — Olivia Lloyd, Sun Sentinel, 29 July 2022
  • And the Navy felt relief that officials had sent many of its warships out to sea so they wouldn’t get battered at their piers in San Diego Harbor.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2023
  • One sign of that may be the claimed recent sinking of a Russian warship in the Black Sea by a new generation of Ukrainian naval drones.
    — Samya Kullab and Alex Babenko The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The helicopter then approached the Iran warship and found the crew of the Iranian vessel attempting to cover up the sea drones with tarps.
    — Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 3 Sep. 2022
  • The attack came after sea drones targeted one of Russia’s largest ports in the Black Sea and damaged a warship on Friday.
    — Jared Malsin, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2023
  • Russia said on Sunday its forces had hit a Ukrainian warship and a weapons store in Odesa with missiles.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 24 July 2022
  • The robotic vehicles are meant to supplement the Navy’s manned warships, rather than replace them.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2024
  • China sent warships and dozens of fighter jets toward Taiwan the same day, Taiwan said.
    — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Four days later, when the fire was officially out, the U.S. Navy faced the sickening loss of a $1.2 billion-dollar warship, not to war, or even at sea.
    — Megan Rose, ProPublica, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The Pentagon has moved warships and aircraft to the region to be ready to provide Israel with assistance.
    — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 20 Oct. 2023
  • This ancient Greek warship ruled the Mediterranean Science Blood cleaning?
    — Magazine, 7 Sep. 2022

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