freighter

Example Sentences

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“They fooled us,” says Victor, retired after a life as a freighter crewman.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

In one operation about 35 nautical miles from the small island of Gavdos, off Crete, a coastguard vessel, a Danish freighter and a helicopter took 365 people off a fishing boat, according to the agency.

From Barron's • Dec. 26, 2025

After the telegram arrived, instructing him to head to Le Harve, the 19-year-old discovered the only available ship was a freighter packed with army lorries, according to the Royal Navy.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2024

A runaway freighter full of gypsum rammed a steel bridge, but the cause was crew inattention, not mechanical like Baltimore.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 26, 2024

“That freighter came along and knocked him from the mast. The knife and the lantern went overboard with him—the knife and the lantern were never found, right?—and—” “Pipe down a minute, Abel,” said Art Moran.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson