How to Use submarine in a Sentence

submarine

1 of 3 adjective
  • This could mean a shift to more submarine-style explosive eruptions.
    — Shane Cronin, CNN, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Anti-submarine warfare is a cat-and-mouse game, and sometimes the cat needs to make some noise to find the mouse.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2022
  • One of the major functions of modern navies is submarine hunting.
    — New Atlas, 18 Jan. 2026
  • In wartime, the subs would hide under the ice from NATO anti-submarine forces.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2021
  • Meanwhile, half of the 31 LCSs the fleet plans to keep could get anti-submarine gear.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 16 June 2021
  • Tuo Chiang packs tube launchers for anti-submarine torpedoes but lacks heavy air-defenses.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Anderson is a submarine-style hurler, nearly grazing the mound on each delivery and just barely hitting 80 mph on his heater.
    — Mitchell Gladstone, Arkansas Online, 30 May 2021
  • The most recent flights stood out because of the number and types of planes involved, including bombers and anti-submarine planes on nighttime intrusions.
    — New York Times, 3 Oct. 2021
  • But those mission modules were beset by problems, and the anti-submarine capability was canceled in the new budget.
    — David Sharp, ajc, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Whales have washed up on the Peloponnesian coast with ears bleeding from decompression injuries caused by anti-submarine-warfare training.
    — Amia Srinivasan, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2020
  • Each ship has a limited number of silos capable of carrying a mix of anti-air, anti-ship, land-attack, and anti-submarine missiles.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 Apr. 2021
  • But a new antenna technology, borrowed from the physics of medical implants, is rethinking how submarine machines talk to each other – and to us.
    — Omar Kardoudi june 06, New Atlas, 6 June 2026
  • The ships were supposed to be made versatile through plug-and-play mission modules for surface combat, mine-sweeping operations or anti-submarine warfare.
    — David Sharp, ajc, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The team determined that the explosive was an anti-submarine mortar bomb and believe it was used in the area when a nearby weapons research facility was operating.
    — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Boldly striking at the enemy in spite of continuous hostile air and anti-submarine patrols, Cmdr.
    — Drew Broach | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 7 Dec. 2020
  • China plans to use the South China Sea as a stronghold, where its air and naval forces could protect the submarines by keeping enemy anti-submarine forces at bay.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Chu medium-range surface-to-air missiles, and Type 07 anti-submarine missiles; all of which possess ranges exceeding 30 miles.
    — Sebastien Roblin, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The perfection of the bathythermograph as an anti-submarine warfare tool had been a high priority at WHOI for years before the war.
    — Catherine Musemeche, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022
  • Mk 54 can be fired from surface ships and airborne anti-submarine platforms like the P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft.
    — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
  • China had another drill in areas south of Taiwan in mid-August, with combat ships, anti-submarine aircraft and fighter jets among the forces that joined the exercises.
    — Bloomberg.com, 18 Sep. 2021
  • In the bottom of the 10th, submarine-style Tyler Rogers earned the save by retiring all three of his batters to strand George Springer, who opened the inning on second.
    — John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 11 Aug. 2020
  • That implies if deployed operationally, the Indian Navy might need to assign escorts to provide anti-air and anti-submarine defense.
    — Sebastien Roblin, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The submarine industrial base is still recovering after losing thousands of suppliers since the end of the Cold War, the industrial base council said.
    — Stephen Singer, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The white rectangle outline on top of the fuselage is probably a modular, removable payload bay that could carry a number of equipment types, such as a jammer, anti-submarine payload, or any number of useful cargoes.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Together, the five ships have a total of 610 vertical launch silos capable of launching anti-air, anti-submarine, land attack, and anti-ship missiles—with not even a rough idea of when they might be replaced.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The entire Shatsky Rise is also covered in those telltale magnetic stripes, which implies that oceanic plateaus themselves are not submarine versions of continental flood basalts, and they aren’t driven by mantle plumes.
    — Robin George Andrews, National Geographic, 15 July 2019
  • The extra spending will also let Japan more quickly acquire anti-submarine missiles, maritime patrol planes and military cargo jets, the Defense Ministry said.
    — Reuters, CNN, 28 Nov. 2021
  • The planes flown Monday included 18 fighter jets, four bombers, two anti-submarine planes and a surveillance aircraft, according to Taiwanese officials.
    — NBC News, 13 Apr. 2021
  • The Navy optimized the Virginias for land-attack missions with Tomahawk cruise missiles, at the expense of their anti-submarine capabilities.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 29 June 2021
  • As a near-term step, the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom should invite Japan to participate in discrete (non-submarine) elements of the 2021 AUKUS security pact, which will support Australia’s acquisition of nuclear submarines and promote cooperation on other advanced capabilities.
    — Christopher Johnstone, Foreign Affairs, 12 Jan. 2023

submarine

2 of 3 noun
  • There are Russian submarines all over the place.
    — Laura Doan, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • But not every submarine is built for the same kind of mission.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 23 June 2026
  • In one hand, the earth product, and the other the submarine wine.
    — Popular Mechanics, 8 Feb. 2023
  • These submarines are powerful chess pieces on this tense global stage.
    — Longreads, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The hangars housed 12 blimps that were used for submarine patrol.
    — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Attack submarines help control the seas.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 23 June 2026
  • That would allow faster fielding across surface ships and submarines.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Apr. 2026
  • But in general submarines lack these hard kill measures.
    — Aditya Jadhav, Interesting Engineering, 15 May 2026
  • To begin with, the submarine has to be removed from the waters and moved to a dry dock.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 29 Dec. 2025
  • The buoys are used to detect submarines and other objects in the water.
    — Lolita C. Baldor, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The most threatening thing about Russia right now is its submarines.
    — James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Attack submarines are often described as hunter-killers.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 23 June 2026
  • These submarines will also be larger than the Ohio-class submarines.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 11 June 2026
  • Taiwan’s red flag, featuring a white sun against a blue sky, was wrapped around the submarine’s bow.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Hanwha makes large naval submarines in South Korea.
    — Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 14 Dec. 2025
  • To fire an air missile, a submarine needs to come close to the surface and risk detection.
    — James Dwyer, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2026
  • There’s also a swappable submarine wet roller head with a clean water tank and a dirty water tank.
    — Terri Williams, Architectural Digest, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Maconachy was taken aback to learn that his uncle’s submarine had been found after so many years.
    — Mark J. Price, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2023
  • In the past five years, China has added seven new submarine classes to its fleet.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 25 June 2026
  • More countries are building submarines as part of a bigger change in naval strategy.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 25 June 2026
  • The researchers only captured a brief glimpse of a blue shark on their submarine cameras.
    — Desiree Anello, PEOPLE, 31 Dec. 2025
  • This does not mean each Chinese submarine is more advanced than those from other navies.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 25 June 2026
  • Their main job is to track, follow, and destroy enemy submarines and surface ships.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 23 June 2026
  • They are designed to detect and track ballistic missiles launched from the ground and from submarines.
    — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The vessel is fourth in a series of six Barracuda-class submarines.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 28 June 2026
  • Aircraft, ships, submarines and nuclear submarines will all take part.
    — CBS News, 19 May 2026
  • Adversaries cannot easily know where the submarines are.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 26 May 2026
  • The ridges are submarine fractures through which magma emanates.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Officials think this new approach will make upgrades faster and keep more submarines available.
    — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 19 May 2026
  • The first group meeting and the submarine’s arrival both took place Tuesday.
    — Stella Kim, NBC News, 19 July 2023

submarine

3 of 3 verb
  • That team submarined itself to 37 wins under the bulk of its own malaise.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 31 Oct. 2017
  • The dummy still submarined under the rear lap belt and its head got close to the front seatback.
    — Andrew Beckford, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
  • There is no way an injury to a two-way player should submarine a season.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Against Texas Tech, the lack of depth finally submarined them.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 23 Oct. 2019
  • Miller’s second season in charge was submarined by health issues across his roster.
    — Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 12 Dec. 2019
  • All eyes will be on his mechanics, which submarined the second half of his rookie season and led to a dead arm late in the year.
    — Steven Ruiz, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2017
  • Still, the Suns submarined them with three consecutive blowout losses, each as lifeless as the next.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 23 Oct. 2017
  • But what about the bullpen that came perilously close to submarining their World Series run last season?
    — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 19 June 2018
  • Underwater sensor arrays won’t put an end to submarine stealth by themselves.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 July 2022
  • Then, the special effects department is building a special gurney so that the actor's body can submarine under the bed.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2026
  • This is submarining, or peacing out and then popping back up like a submarine resurfacing from underwater.
    — De Elizabeth, Allure, 22 Mar. 2018
  • An ankle injury took him out of the rotation for the crucial and crippling January that submarined his junior season.
    — Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 24 Mar. 2020
  • For example, never ever trusting your partner can end up submarining that partnership.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Ghosting is a clean break to the relationship, while submarining is a lingering, unhealthy, and toxic connection that just can’t go away.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Evans, the rookie from Notre Dame, caught the ball, got submarined and basically somersaulted into the end zone.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Waiters and Wall, like Thomas, were submarined by injuries, while Smith and Dunn are young guards still trying to establish themselves in the league.
    — Ben Golliver, SI.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The Hawkeyes’ offense is lagging way behind though, and that inconsistency is threatening to submarine their season.
    — Luke Meredith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2019
  • Or whether the Coronavirus is an instrument designed by the radical left to submarine a presidential re-election campaign?
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 29 Feb. 2020
  • The Politico story also notes another way in which the Ukrainians allegedly submarined Manafort.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 11 July 2017
  • Yes, the struggles of the offensive line submarined the entire operation, but there was no creativity in the play calling, not adjustments to work around the porous protection.
    — Ryan Young, ajc, 5 Sep. 2017
  • Specific to Bradbury and Onwenu, they got submarined by Bengals defensive linemen on Maye's tush-push sneak in the fourth quarter, which stopped them and their quarterback from generating any kind of push.
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 25 Nov. 2025

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