mother ship

Example Sentences

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Companies sell decoys, which trail planes or ships, sometimes looking like a missile, and emit signals to confuse adversaries into targeting it instead of its mother ship.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026

The hearing revealed other text messages between Titan and its mother ship as the deep-sea vessel began its trek to the sea floor to see the iconic British ocean liner that sank in 1912.

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2024

Many of these spinoffs have been massive hits, turning contestants into international stars and producing programming so stellar it’s at times bested the mother ship.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2024

Earlier this month, I took a memorable champagne truffle making class at the mother ship itself, the Lindt Home of Chocolate.

From Salon • Aug. 19, 2023

Over the course of the decade, a series of space missions confirmed that the idea of having a launch vehicle that separated from the mother ship would, in fact, work.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson