steamship

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Recent Examples of steamship The breakthrough came soon after, with a roving assignment aboard the Quaker City, a steamship bound for Palestine. Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025 The Carpathia, the steamship that raced to the site of the disaster, picked up just over 700 survivors from the Titanic’s too-few and too sparsely filled lifeboats. Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025 That’s what was being asked — for days — after the White Star Line’s famous steamship Titanic hit an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2025 Told in first-person narrative with archival photos, the 225-page coffee-table book covers the family’s many setbacks and triumphs dating back to the early 1890s, when Jessop’s great-grandparents arrived in San Diego via steamship, rail and horsedrawn buggy. David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for steamship
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Noun
  • Back then, the steamer was the first to push content out in 4K and later HDR.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 4 June 2025
  • When used together, the steamer and the mask boost curls’ retention and definition while tending to overall hair health.
    Jenny Berg, Vogue, 26 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But that changed in the 1950s after a barge, loaded with construction materials to build a school, got stuck near present-day Newtok and couldn’t navigate farther upriver.
    Emily Schwing, ProPublica, 29 May 2025
  • Ancient Egyptians are famous for their pioneering and mastery of hydraulics through canals for irrigation purposes and barges to transport huge stones.
    Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • After learning of the loss of the iron ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior and the deaths of all 29 crew members from Newsweek, Gord lifted passages from the article and put them to a dreamy dirge: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.
    Ryan Craig, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
  • Night shift in a teeming academic hospital can feel like a relentlessly heaving freighter, and I’d been hustling from ward to ward bailing water; this task was just another on my scut list.
    Danielle Ofri, New Yorker, 7 June 2025
Noun
  • The alternative would have been a full scrapping, which is what befell another Staten Island ferryboat, the Andrew J. Barberi.
    E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 10 May 2025
  • As a teenager, Ellen Dare Burling had an unusual summer job: Jumping off a moving ferryboat onto wooden piers, her arms filled with letters and packages destined for summer residents in their southern Wisconsin lake houses.
    Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 30 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • British warships sank the vessel off the coast near the port city of Cartagena.
    Becca Longmire, People.com, 11 June 2025
  • On June 8, however, the galleon had the misfortune of running across a squadron of five British warships during the War of Spanish Succession.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 11 June 2025
Noun
  • Limp also spotlighted Blue Origin's work on zero-boil-off technology and the firm's Transporter tanker.
    Leonard David, Space.com, 4 June 2025
  • Additionally, owners of tankers supplying fuel to squid fishers are not mandated to register these vessels within fleets that directly contact fishing vessels, creating a regulatory gap that enables support with a minimal record of activities.
    Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • These preyed upon American merchantmen who either payed tribute or showed forged British passes.
    Thomas Wendel, National Review, 4 July 2019
  • The Navy already has ships in the fleet that are former merchantmen.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2019
Noun
  • Nassau had no men-of-war ships, and Trott’s stone fort was still a building site.
    Sean Kingsley, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
  • My hundred-and-forty-foot man-of-war sought to make the first mission to the South Pole, a feat that would bring pride to England.
    Mike O’Brien, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023

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“Steamship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/steamship. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.

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