freighter

Example Sentences

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Anxiety filled the city’s atmosphere, especially early in the war, when Allied freighters were being torpedoed off the coast, tragically framed against the city’s nighttime glow.

From The Wall Street Journal

When you think about the folk era, when it was really hot — burning hot — it was hobos on freighters writing songs about social injustice.

From Los Angeles Times

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

Offshore, more grain-laden freighters had already left the port, passing vessels about to enter.

From New York Times

The path taken by the cargo ship - which was exiting the Port of Baltimore under the Key Bridge - is "no stranger to large freighters", the city's representatives wrote.

From BBC