battleship
Example Sentences
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“If the government decides to use big guns and bring back the battleships, I’m not getting involved.”
At the time he was serving as a Navy gunner’s mate third class aboard the battleship USS Oklahoma, a vessel doomed by plane-fired torpedoes that capsized it in minutes.
From Washington Post
He's been presumed dead since Dec. 7, 1941, when Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor and set off a massive explosion that sank his battleship, the USS Arizona, launching the U.S. into World War II.
From Fox News
Some documents are believed to have been destroyed with the battleship.
From Seattle Times
“It’s the Titanic going down or the unsinkable battleship,” Kishner said.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
