battleship
Example Sentences
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They take provisions to the battleship in their fishing boats.
“If the government decides to use big guns and bring back the battleships, I’m not getting involved.”
US Navy battleships, aircraft carriers, ocean liners, oil tankers—all sorts of sea vessels were being built there.
From Literature
And yet she had been the first English battleship to have gunports and to mount complete batteries of siege artillery—a really key ship in the development process at a time of rapid technological change.
From Literature
Takaichi said in the Japanese parliament on 7 November: "If there are battleships and the use of force, no matter how you think about it, it could constitute a survival-threatening situation."
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.