dreadnought
Example Sentences
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It is the only remaining WWI-era dreadnought battleship.
From Washington Times • Aug. 31, 2022
Musk has spoken to investors about his vision of an "alien dreadnought" factory that uses artificial intelligence and robots to build cars at speeds faster than human assembly workers could manage.
From Reuters • Apr. 24, 2017
The unnamed correspondent for the Times, watching from the deck of the British flagship the dreadnought HMS Queen Elizabeth, was overwhelmed:
From BBC • Nov. 20, 2014
Martins, from 1939, is what they are. Eldridge’s is a dreadnought, the largest flattop guitar, and Lage’s is a smaller version.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 16, 2014
Bethlehem Steel brought giant ingots and great slabs of military armor, including a curved plate seventeen inches thick meant for the gun turret of the dreadnought Indiana.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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