gunboat

Example Sentences

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Yes, there is the Gunboat Society kind of depiction of the South, and I’m not maligning that.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2017

The Gunboat comes in 370-gram and 400-gram versions.

From Golf Digest • Jun. 21, 2016

The vessels the veterans were able to inspect included Motor Gunboat 81, one of the lead boats for British and Canadian troops heading into Sword Beach.

From The Guardian • Jun. 2, 2014

One bookcase is given over entirely to Harry Castlemon’s Gunboat series, popular juvenile literature from the 1860s that time has forgotten, a collection assembled to illustrate the evolution of publishing in the 19th century.

From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2011

Equal Rights" writes:— "Dear Sir,—Why are descriptive names confined to boxers, such as Bombardier Wells and Gunboat Smith?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, July 1, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir