freighter
Example Sentences
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The freighter wound up 1,300 feet past the end of Runway 30, its right engine on fire and left engine running.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Just one lone freighter was seen moving towards the port.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Consider the March 1942 sinking of the British freighter Induna.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 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
Eratosthenes would no doubt have first made inquiries at Athens’ port of Piraeus for passage aboard a freighter.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
