trireme

Example Sentences

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The warship's welcoming ceremony outside the naval base of Salamis included a copy of an ancient Athenian trireme and the Georgios Averof, a historic cruiser that fought in the Balkan Wars.

From Barron's • Jan. 15, 2026

“We just aim to get people to know the trireme and have fun.”

From Washington Times • Oct. 16, 2018

You get the sense that, were he sent to review an Olive Garden, he would remark, in his opening paragraph, that the bread sticks reminded him of the oars on a trireme.

From New York Times • Sep. 18, 2017

Like all great ships of the past, from the Greek trireme to the Yankee clipper, the supertanker was launched to meet a specific demand at a specific time.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Athena and Demeter teams were having a chariot race around the track, and over at the canoe lake some kids in a Greek trireme were fighting a large orange sea serpent.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan