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• The shoreline was littered with the floating jettison from the wrecked freighter.From the entry jettison
• Joshua weathered a collision with a freighter near South Africa.From the entry weather
• After the freighter was torpedoed, its escorting destroyers depth charged the submarine for two hours, but failed to sink it.From the entry depth charge
• The aircraft was scheduled to operate a freighter flight from London Heathrow Airport to Frankfurt Airport.2022 November 3, Air Accidents Investigation Branch, “History of the flight”, in AAIB investigation to Boeing 787-8, G-ZBJB, archived from…. From the entry down route
• She led a recon team into the asteroid field, where she discovered an abandoned freighter.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Carbonaceous Asteroid, Phoenix. From the entry recon
• In Halfway Reach we mis-fetched and narrowly missed colliding with a fast moving freighter.1989, Dick Durham, The Last Sailorman, page 85. From the entry misfetch
• There weren't any passenger ships leaving Pa-tung, only a freighter going to Wu-shan, so we took that.1981, Hualing Nieh Engle, translated by Jane Parish Yang and Linda Lappin, Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China, Boston: Beacon Press…. From the entry Wu-shan
• Meredith Victory, a United States merchant marine cargo freighter.2021 September 5, Choe Sang-Hun, “As Afghan Refugee Crisis Unfolds, Survivors Recall ‘Miracle’ Evacuation”, in The New York Times, →ISSN…. From the entry Hungnam
• They had been slowly trailing the freighter for over a week, waiting for the ship to drop out of FTL.2016, A.K. Brown, Jumpstart (Champagne Universe Series: Book 1), page 19. From the entry ftl
• But others bred a larger, stronger mule for the freighters: the Missouri mule, which became legendary for its power and personality.2010, Mary Collins Barile, The Santa Fe Trail in Missouri, page 92. From the entry Missouri mule
• Even though they were fitted with hush kits, the overnight freighters were the subject of repeated noise complaints.2007 February, News.com.au. From the entry hush kit
• There was the Lightning whose record of thirteen days from Boston to Liverpool, many a steam freighter today cannot beat.1929 February 3, Warren Irvin, “Gallant Wooden Vessels Survive; Stanch Ships from the Era of Sail and the Early Days of Steam Are Still in…. From the entry tea clipper
• He staggers against a stanchion, trips over a rope, and tumbles into the space between the quay and the steel plates of the freighter.2013, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 27, in The Childhood of Jesus, Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company, page 268. From the entry stanchion
• It was said the plundering of “Ichang Supplying and Sciling Cooperative” freighters traveling on the Hsi River was the work of these youths.1977 May 29, “Educated youths make trouble in big cities”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVIII, number 21, Taipei, →OCLC, page 3. From the entry HSI
• Known in the West as Mount Morrison, after the American freighter captain who first sighted the mountain in the nineteenth century, the peak was even higher than Mount Fuji.2017, Julia Lin, “Left Behind”, in Shadows of the Crimson Sun: One Man's Life in Manchuria, Taiwan, and North America, Mawenzi House…. From the entry Mount Morrison
• Vance's assignment is to patrol a stretch of the Yangtze between Chungking and Ichang and to protect American missionaries, tankers and freighters that fly the American flag.2015, Scott Derks, Working Americans 1880-2015, 2nd edition, volume V, Grey House Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 212. From the entry Ichang
• "I knew what my target was," the SAC general adds: "Leningrad." The bombers only turned around when the Soviet freighters carrying missiles to Cuba stopped dead in the Atlantic.1995, Richard Rhodes, “Scorpions in a Bottle”, in Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 575. From the entry threat
• Vast freighters, under whose unimaginable mass the Gargantuanly braced and latticed and trussed docks yielded visibly and groaningly, crushed to a standstill and disgorged their varied cargoes.1940 January, E[dward] E[lmer] Smith, “Gray Lensman; Part IV: Conclusion”, in Astounding Science-Fiction, volume XXIV, number 5, New York…. From the entry gargantuanly

Meaning of freighter

1. noun One who loads a ship.
2. noun One who charters and loads a ship.
3. noun One employed in receiving and forwarding freight.

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Questions about freighter in a sentence

How do you use freighter in a sentence?

Freighter is used as a noun. For example: “The cargo was shipped across the ocean on a large freighter.”

What is a short sentence with freighter?

“A Chinese freighter was spotted entering the harbor.”

What does freighter mean?

Freighter means one who loads a ship.