How to use cruiser in a sentence

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• The cruiser blew up when a shell hit its magazine.From the entry magazine
• I'm sure he'll get home safe; he's quite the experienced booze cruiser. You wouldn't believe his record BAC.From the entry booze cruiser
• When they hit cruisers, they use hangar spam to mow down corvettes and bastions.2021 December 21, AdamZeeper, “Countering artillery battleships”, in reddit.com. From the entry megacannon
• The embattled heavy cruiser is not in immediate danger of sinking, but is being badly mauled.2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 26:02 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov…. From the entry maul
• 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
• Minutes later, at least two, possibly three, tear the bow off the hapless cruiser Kumano.2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 18:01 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov…. From the entry spread
• They jumped into his cruiser and blue-lighted it to Boston Medical Center at eighty miles per hour.2012, Jon Mukand, The Man with the Bionic Brain, Chicago Review Press, →ISBN. From the entry blue light
• The Tallink line regularly delivered Finnish booze cruisers travelling to Estonia for cheap shopping and drinking.2011, Thom Wheeler, One Steppe Beyond: Across Russia in a VW Camper, Summersdale Publishers, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry booze cruiser
• The Franks were lost on July 5, shortly after leaving Grenada on their cabin cruiser Reel Lucky.2007 November 5, Denyse Renne, “Lost at sea; no sign of brothers for 3 months”, in Trinidad and Tobago Express. From the entry cabin cruiser
• A new acting under-steward arrives on a pleasure cruiser to be trained by an experienced steward.1990 March 27, Daily Record, number 31,443, page 22. From the entry under-steward
• Admiral Glassford needed more cruisers, more destroyers, more submarines for the sea defense of Java.1942 February 23, “Dutchman's Chance”, in TIME, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2008. From the entry United Nations
• 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
• The cruiser Northampton was towing Hornet at a stately five knots when, out of the sky, came seven torpedo-armed aircraft.2021 February 3, Drachinifel, 20:43 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Santa Cruz (IJN 2 : 2 USN), archived from the original on 04…. From the entry stricken
• Amongst the cruisers, it's not such good news.2021 May 5, Drachinifel, 43:29 from the start, in Battle of Samar - What if TF34 was there?, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2022. From the entry wallow
• The Japanese armored cruiser Nisshin has been hit badly.2019 September 18, Drachinifel, 26:33 from the start, in Battle of Tsushima - When the 2nd Pacific Squadron thought it couldn't get any…. From the entry disarm
• Three more heavy cruisers from further down the Japanese line begin to blast away at the now-disabled Gambier Bay.2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 27:15 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov…. From the entry blast away
• Seydlitz correctly identifies the larger shell splashes as coming from the two "large light cruisers" at the rear, and takes aim.2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 15:10 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original…. From the entry excuse
• The sculptor Josh Hadar’s hybrid-powered hot rods and superstreamlined pedal cruisers bring new meaning to the word “bespoke.”2008 March 9, Sandra Ballentine, “Reinventing the Wheels”, in New York Times. From the entry superstreamlined
• Pavanaz tripped into hyperspace, burned the cruiser with his exhaust, threw all power to his screens and deflected the carrier's hypermissiles.2006, Brian Lumley, Screaming Science Fiction: Horrors from Out of Space, Subterranean Press, →ISBN, page 124. From the entry hypermissile
• Yet keeping the weight down is as important to sidehack racing as it is in standard or cruiser BMX racing.1993 12, George H. Jenkins, Cycling, →ISBN. From the entry sidehack
• That cruisers talked to cruisers across vast distances like synapses discharging in a megamind could not be proven mathematically.1983, Janet Morris, Cruiser Dreams, page 111. From the entry megamind
• To protect themselves from the lurking police cruisers ("smokey bears"), truckers ("18-wheelers") purchased CB units in large numbers.1977, M. Wayne DeLozier, Consumer behavior dynamics: a casebook, page 251. From the entry smokey bear
• On the night Nolan got popped, the same cop delivered Milton home in the back of the cruiser, but didn’t turn the lights on.2021, Brandon Taylor, “Filthy Animals”, in Filthy Animals, Daunt Books Originals, page 131. From the entry pop
• Farenholt and Laffey hadn't spotted the incoming Japanese Navy vessels, and were winding up to full speed to more-quickly bypass the cruisers.2020 December 9, Drachinifel, 15:25 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Cape Esperance (IJN 1 : 2 USN), archived from the original…. From the entry wind up
• Kalinin Bay is also in trouble, trading fire with Japanese destroyers and taking hits from both them and cruisers at the same time.2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 29:08 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov…. From the entry trade
• Concentrating fire on the heavy cruiser Kumano, Johnston, somehow still alive, is rewarded by seeing explosions and flames amidst the superstructure of the Japanese cruiser.2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 16:52 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov…. From the entry pay dividends
• Nary three weeks before, on December 12, Officer Cherylann Young steered a marked Miami-Dade County police cruiser toward the perimeter of MIA, the international airport.2018, Antero Pietila, The Ghosts of Johns Hopkins: The Life and Legacy that Shaped an American City. From the entry nary
• Smaller cruisers bore a variety of rigs, mostly fore-and-aft in character, such as the single-masted cutter, the twin-masted schooner, or the two- or three-masted lugger.2014 February 28, Richard Woodman, The Sea Warriors: Fighting Captains and Frigate Warfare in the Age of Nelson, Seaforth Publishing…. From the entry twin-masted
• On this trip, we talked with fellow cruisers about their travels and boats, and many were curious about the Beneteau Swift Trawler.2009 April, MotorBoating, page 43. From the entry wow
• Most ship-to-ship engagements are skirmishes between patrol vessels of cruiser weight and below, with dreadnoughts and carriers only deployed in full-scale fleet actions.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Space Combat Codex entry. From the entry full-scale
• Cruisers perform routine independent "show the flag" patrols in settled systems and lead flotillas of frigates in small engagements, such as pirate suppression campaigns.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Starships: Cruisers Codex entry. From the entry show the flag
• If you happened to be a Westchesterite without a boat, you could still sail to the fair aboard a cruiser out of Mamaroneck.2004, Marilyn E. Weigold, The Long Island Sound: A History of Its People, Places, and Environment. From the entry Westchesterite
• And each was hideously powerful: an attack carrier could destroy a world, a force of cruisers and spinship destroyers could destroy a sun.1990, Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion, 1st edition, New York: Doubleday, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 114. From the entry carrier
• 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
• With Gambier Bay and Hoel sinking and Roberts not much longer for this world, the Johnston is now set upon by four cruisers and a number of destroyers.2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 31:46 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov…. From the entry not long for this world
• They were trying to line the cruiser up to provide the maximum target for bombers, which was the opposite of the maximum target for torpedo aircraft.2015, Jeffrey Cox, Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The disastrous Java Sea, →ISBN. From the entry Mitsubishi
• McFaarlane, say the number four gun has did for another cruiser, but they all gonna drown, aft, as much water as the screws is throwin' up!"2014 May 6, Taylor Anderson, Deadly Shores, Penguin, →ISBN, page 288. From the entry did
• Commodore Rudolph Heissman, commander of the light cruiser HMS Casey and the other three ships of Green Two, the task force callsigned Janus, was undoubtedly a very busy man.2013, David Weber, Charles E. Gannon, Timothy Zahn, Beginnings: Worlds of Honor 6. From the entry callsigned
• Ten minutes later the destroyers and cruisers opened fire on the Wolmi-do, their gun crews by now intimately familiar with the island's fireport caves and bunkers.2001, Joseph H. Alexander, Fleet Operations in a Mobile War: September 1950-June 1951 (U.S. Navy and the Korean War), Naval Historical…. From the entry fireport
• TV personality Shari Lewis, proud skipperess of a new Owens cruiser. demonstrates a bit of legerdemain with wiglets — small hairpieces that, properly twined, will solve nautical grooming problems.1964 July, Motorboating, volume 114, number 1, page 68. From the entry wiglet

Meaning of cruiser

1. noun A frigate or other vessel, detached from the fleet, to cruise independently in search of the enemy or its merchant ships.
2. noun A class of fast warships of medium tonnage, having a long cruising range but less armour and firepower than a battleship.
3. noun A starship of comparable role.

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Questions about cruiser in a sentence

How do you use cruiser in a sentence?

Cruiser is used as a noun. For example: “The cruiser blew up when a shell hit its magazine.”

What is a short sentence with cruiser?

“Amongst the cruisers, it's not such good news.”

What does cruiser mean?

Cruiser means a frigate or other vessel, detached from the fleet, to cruise independently in search of the enemy or its merchant ships.