dreadnought
Example Sentences
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It is the only remaining WWI-era dreadnought battleship.
From Washington Times • Aug. 31, 2022
The Imperatritsa Maria dreadnought battleship sank in 1916 after an explosion involving ammunition.
From Reuters • Apr. 14, 2022
A recommissioned dreadnought, the New Jersey, with sixteen-inch guns revamped and rumored to be out of dry dock in Philadelphia and headed this way.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 2019
It’s a dreadnought of a World War II-era historical novel, bristling with armaments yet intimate in tone.
From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2017
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
