How to Use amphibious in a Sentence

amphibious

adjective
  • Much like frogs, who live a life of half-and-half, these fish are amphibious.
    — Sofia Quaglia, Discover Magazine, 9 May 2023
  • The well deck is where the ship stores and stages amphibious landing craft.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 June 2021
  • How many small amphibious ships and small supply ships does the Navy need?
    — David Axe, Forbes, 21 June 2021
  • About 2,000 sailors are on the three amphibious ships.
    — George Petras, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The sea was also rough and only two of 29 amphibious tanks even made it to shore.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 6 June 2023
  • That brings us to his latest amphibious creation, which sports both wheels and duck-foot-like paddles.
    — Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The day was the largest amphibious military assault the world had ever seen.
    — Leada Gore | [email protected], al.com, 6 June 2019
  • The Bonhomme Richard was the sixth of the Wasp-class amphibious ships.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Feb. 2021
  • The amphibious glider can stay afloat, even if the sea is a little choppy (big waves are a problem, though).
    — Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2019
  • But some Allied landing craft and amphibious tanks sank in swells, and men who stayed afloat were seasick.
    — National Geographic, 3 June 2019
  • Followed, of course, by the amphibious landing on the beaches of Nepal.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 21 Apr. 2017
  • One significant risk is that Iran could strike the amphibious ships.
    — Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Still, the amphibious cruiser was at least able to deliver on the second part of that slogan.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 3 June 2022
  • The amphibious platypus spends much of its time in the water, while the echidna, often called a spiny anteater, is at home on land.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 4 May 2025
  • The whale was more amphibious and retained functional hind limbs that would have allowed the mammal to stand on land.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2022
  • While the amphibious platypus spends much of its time in water, the echidna—also known as the spiny anteater—makes its home on land.
    — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 May 2025
  • The small but heavy amphibious vehicle that reached speeds of 7 mph on water and 70 mph on land.
    — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Marines could attempt an amphibious landing though that approach would leave forces exposed while crossing the strait.
    — Chris Boccia, ABC News, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Ukraine said the vessels hit were two amphibious landing ships, the Yamal and the Azov.
    — Andrew Carey, Maria Kostenko and Josh Pennington, CNN, 24 Mar. 2024
  • Its flight deck is more in common with the US Navy's amphibious assault ships.
    — Yoonjung Seo and Brad Lendon, CNN, 3 Sep. 2021
  • China began sea trials of its most advanced amphibious assault ship to date.
    — Mitch Picasso, FOXNews.com, 14 Nov. 2025
  • In the event of a Chinese amphibious assault, drones could help Taiwan, as well.
    — Mark A. Milley, Foreign Affairs, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Rossi boops their snoots with a clicky ballpoint pen, and the fish—which are amphibious, and can survive on land for weeks at a time—backflip out of reach.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 15 June 2021
  • Jackson didn't know where on the 840-foot amphibious assault vessel the fire was sparked.
    — Fox News, 13 July 2020
  • Wallace and Hansen both played on the amphibious force football team there that Bucklew coached.
    — cincinnati.com, 26 May 2022
  • There are at least two amphibious ready groups — US Navy task forces for assaulting the shore from the sea.
    — Jamie Tarabay, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2026
  • This approach blurs the line between amphibious ship and light aircraft carrier.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Dec. 2025
  • To be better able to retake any islands, the army is tripling its amphibious unit to 2,100 troops.
    — Alastair Gale, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The group said the man was a soldier on board the USS Wasp, an amphibious assault ship.
    — Reuters, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2024
  • This force often embarks aboard amphibious assault ships but can also operate from land or nearby ports.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 26 Oct. 2025

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