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• The submarine sent out a ping and got an echo from a battleship.From the entry ping
• The battleship was protected by a twelve-inch belt just above the waterline.From the entry belt
• As soon as the battleship docked in Singapore, Roger jumped ship, never to return.From the entry jump ship
• The battleship brought her main guns to bear on the fort.From the entry bring to bear
• An iceberg sank the Titanic. British battleships sank the Bismarck.From the entry sink
• The battleship is presently laid up in Portsmouth Harbour.From the entry lay up
• Commensurately, by scale, their escorts must either be battleships or cruisers.2019 February 27, Drachinifel [pseudonym], “The Battle of Samar – Odds? What are Those?” (12:25 from the start), in YouTube, archived from…. From the entry fortuitous
• I see the biggest meatball flag on the biggest battleship I ever saw!"2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 1:21 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov…. From the entry incredulous
• The battleships Washington and South Dakota pushed through the sea with an implacable ease.2011, James D. Hornfischer, “The Giants Ride”, in Neptune’s Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN…. From the entry implacable
• Not just any battleship but the flagship of the Battle Force!1982, Theodore C. Mason, Battleship Sailor, page 129. From the entry Asiatic
• Mark Twain claimed that women, if given enough time and hairpins, could build a battleship.1975, Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker, Joy of Cooking, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., published 1980…. From the entry cherry-pitter
• The smaller crew was possible because the battleship was stripped of all but her big guns.1968 March 26, “Battleship begins Viet Tests”, in Evening News, Newburgh, NY, USA, retrieved 19 Aug 2011, page 1. From the entry big gun
• Four kilometers behind them were the two battleships and the cruiser Mogami in line ahead, with a destroyer on each flank.2024, Walter S. Zapotoczny, “The Battle of Surigao Strait: The Last Crossing of the T”, in Military History Online, archived from the…. From the entry line ahead
• Amongst the battleships, things are rather different.2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 27:33 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original…. From the entry founder
• The recognition of the battleship spread down the van, from the Cushing to the Laffey to the Sterett to the O'Bannon.2011, James D. Hornfischer, “28: Into the Light”, in Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN…. From the entry eldritch
• I always thought that that original ship, which I call the Croissant, was a battleship, holding these biomechanoid creatures that were all about destruction.2015 September 23, Ben Child, “Ridley Scott plans three more Prometheus films before Alien”, in The Guardian. From the entry biomechanoid
• Both the thrusters and the cautionaries thought the war would end with a massive naval battle involving the battleships of both fleets.2002, Jean Heffer, The United States and the Pacific: History of a Frontier. From the entry thrusters
• On board a battleship in the harbor at Tso Ying, the captain following orders from the Admiral, summoned on deck the ship’s entire crew.1953 February 28, Ernest Gordon, “A Survey of Religious Life and Thought”, in The Sunday School Times, volume 95, number 9, →OCLC, page…. From the entry Tso Ying
• Everybody drinks a lot in wartime, but it seemed to me that I must have drunk enough to float a couple of battleships.1945, Peter Cheyney, Sinister Errand, London: Collins, published 1952, page 8. From the entry a
• His ideas dominated the enlarging and equipping of Java's main naval base at Surabaya, where heavy cruisers (but not battleships) can be fueled and repaired.1942 February 23, “Dutchman's Chance”, in TIME, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2008. From the entry shifty
• The fire started by New Jerseys hit amidships has spread, and there is now a towering inferno' that occupies the middle third of the Japanese battleship.2021 May 5, Drachinifel, 34:59 from the start, in Battle of Samar - What if TF34 was there?, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2022. From the entry inferno
• Whilst they were a munition, a torpedo is far more complex and took far longer to build than a shell for a naval gun, even a battleship shell.2020 February 12, Drachinifel, 8:16 from the start, in The Mark 14 Torpedo - Failure is Like Onions, archived from the original on 24 Nov…. From the entry kamikaze
• Falling out of line ahead into line abreast does require a bit of skill and some clever handling, but three of the four leading battleships execute it perfectly.2019 September 18, Drachinifel, 12:24 from the start, in Battle of Tsushima - When the 2nd Pacific Squadron thought it couldn't get any…. From the entry line abreast
• I see the biggest meatball flag on the biggest battleship I ever saw!" He wasn't wrong, either - that "meatball flag'" was flying from the vast battleship Yamato.2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 1:21 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov…. From the entry meatball flag
• On the other hand, HMS Colossus takes multiple hits from several battleships at once, having drifted closer to the German fleet than the rest of her squadron.2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 21:33 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original…. From the entry lost with all hands
• They lose time when their small control ship is damaged, and the raider battleship runs afoul of an American naval vessel that is testing a new supertorpedo.1990, Everett Franklin Bleiler, Science-Fiction, the Early Years, Kent State University Press, page 506. From the entry supertorpedo
• If Sadie resembled a fort, her mother was a housedressed battleship in flat bedroom slippers and wearing no stockings to hide the blue-and-whiteness of her fat legs.1962, Janet Kern, Yesterday’s Child, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J. B. Lippincott Company, →LCCN, pages 61–62. From the entry housedressed

Meaning of battleship

1. noun A large capital warship displacing thousands to tens of thousands of tons, heavily armoured and armed with large-caliber guns; now obsolescent and replaced by smaller vessels with guided missiles.
2. noun A starship of comparable role.
3. noun A ship of the line.

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Questions about battleship in a sentence

How do you use battleship in a sentence?

Battleship is used as a noun. For example: “The submarine sent out a ping and got an echo from a battleship.”

What is a short sentence with battleship?

“Amongst the battleships, things are rather different.”

What does battleship mean?

Battleship means a large capital warship displacing thousands to tens of thousands of tons, heavily armoured and armed with large-caliber guns; now obsolescent and replaced by smaller vessels with guided missiles.