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How to use spaceship in a sentence

38 example sentences · noun

Spaceship means a manned vehicle that flies through space. Example: “I don't think he'll succeed, but he's doing his darnedest to build a working spaceship.”

Examples of spaceship by meaning

nounA finite pattern that reappears after a certain number of generations in the same orientation but in a different...

  • The spaceships look like a row of threshers harvesting a field of wheat; the thickness in the direction of motion is only about 10 cells.1989 October 26, Richard Schroeppel, “Some recent Life results”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
  • We describe software that searches for spaceships in Conway's Game of Life and related two-dimensional cellular automata.2002, Richard Nowakowski, More Games of No Chance, page 433

More sentences with spaceship

  • I don't think he'll succeed, but he's doing his darnedest to build a working spaceship.From the entry do one's darnedest
  • As soon as the spaceship was completely repaired, it started reoperating.From the entry reoperate
  • The spaceship came under the pull of the gas giant.From the entry pull
  • The LAPD has asked Angelenos not to shoot at the alien spaceship, fearing it might trigger an interstellar war.From the entry Angeleno
  • The spaceship needs to turn around so its retrofire rockets slow it down and put it in a lower orbit.From the entry retrofire
  • The spaceship made an interdimensional jump.From the entry interdimensional
  • As more games appeared you could perhaps begin to classify them: spaceship games, collect-'em-ups, and so on.2012, Clive Fencott, Jo Clay, Mike Lockyer, Game Invaders: The Theory and Understanding of Computer Games. From the entry collect-'em-up
  • The average random Life pattern settles down instead of exploding (if you ignore output gliders and spaceships).2007 May 12, Dave Greene, “Wanted: 2D CA, "as complex" but "denser" than Life”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet). From the entry switch engine
  • The Tillek said those points were the spaceships that had brought humankind and dolphinkind to Pern.2002, Anne McCaffrey, The Dolphins of Pern, page 4. From the entry dolphinkind
  • By coincidence, I am now travelling aboard another Otranto, a spaceship of Italish manufacture.1995, Brian Wilson Aldiss, The secret of this book: 20-odd stories. From the entry Italish
  • The translated distance divided by the period is the speed of the spaceship.1992 August 14, David I. Bell, “Spaceships in Conway's Life (Part 1)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet). From the entry speed of light
  • Without the blinker, this object is known as an OWSS (overweight spaceship).1992 August 13, David Bell, “Spaceships in Conway's Life (Part 1)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet). From the entry blinker
  • To begin with and to be complete, I will list the original spaceships.1992 August 13, David Bell, “Spaceships in Conway's Life (Part 1)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet). From the entry lightweight spaceship
  • These are the glider, the lightweight spaceship (LWSS), middleweight spaceship (MWSS), and the heavyweight spaceship (HWSS).1992 August 13, David Bell, “Spaceships in Conway's Life (Part 1)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet). From the entry lightweight spaceship
  • The switch engine is unstable but a number of them working in combination can form stable puffers, spaceships and rakes.2015, Paul Rendell, Turing Machine Universality of the Game of Life, page 133. From the entry rake
  • There's a lot to be said for spaceships.2015, A. Bertram Chandler, Alternate Orbits. From the entry virtuous couch
  • Are you going off in a spaceship?"2010 August 1, Marilyn Pappano, The Trouble With Josh, Silhouette, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry Nastronaut
  • But now, Venus Express, a European spaceship, is revealing enough bizarrities to keep a TV weather watcher babbling till dawn.2009, David J. Tenenbaum, Terry Devitt, The Why Files: The Science Behind the News, Penguin Books, →ISBN. From the entry bizarrity
  • This was not a spaceship with its stern half broader than the bows and with high stabilizer ribs.2005, Vera Velichko, The Best on the East, volume 3, page 107. From the entry planetship
  • Perhaps the simplest puffer known is the following period 20 puffer based on the period 20 spaceship, which creates blocks.1997 November 30, David Bell, “Day & Night - An Interesting Variant of Life (part 5/5)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet). From the entry block
  • He haz a big spaceship on toppa hiz stereo speaker.1996 June 14, Cheryl L. Rankin, “MEOW: To boldly go were no kat haz gone...”, in rec.pets.cats (Usenet), retrieved 11 Apr 2022. From the entry haz
  • The spaceship was rematerializing around all of us.1995, Margaret Simpson, Strange Orbit, page 68. From the entry rematerialize
  • A growing spaceship which uses the pi-heptomino.1993 March 16, David Bell, “Life program (part 14/18)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet). From the entry pi-heptomino
  • In a shoot'em up, the player usually looks from above on her player character (most commonly in the form of a spaceship).2013 August 28, Sebastian Domsch, Storyplaying: Agency and Narrative in Video Games, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 65. From the entry shoot 'em up
  • (female member of the spaceship crew speaking) "We're going on a year now, I ain't had nothing 'twixt my nethers weren't run on batteries."2005, Serenity, 00:31:28. From the entry nethers
  • Notice that this law also states that we cannot hope to achieve superluminal (faster than light) speeds with a hypercannon mounted on a relativistic spaceship.2005, John F. Hawley, Katherine A. Holcomb, Foundations of Modern Cosmology, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 193. From the entry hypercannon
  • Alternatively, in many cases the debris can be suppressed by perturbing the debris with a passing spaceship before it stabilizes into the beehive or loaf.1992 October 22, David Bell, “Spaceships in Conway's Life (Part 6a)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet). From the entry beehive
  • I wouldn’t have to change anything but the word spaceship.” But Card didn’t do the story as a medievaloid fantasy because of the publishing practices of the time.2003, Edith S. Tyson, Orson Scott Card: Writer of the Terrible Choice (Scarecrow Studies in Young Adult Literature; 10), Lanham, Md.: The…. From the entry medievaloid
  • The trailing middleweight spaceships convert the spark into a pair of pi-heptominos, which start the line of blinkers burning again, while leaving behind a pair of blocks.1996 December 16, Dean Hickerson, “What is his name ?”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet). From the entry middleweight spaceship
  • It does include a pseudo-spaceship based on the Pi-heptomino (pseudo because it needs some classic spaceships in front, and so the middle gets longer and longer.1995 March 30, John Harper, “Life - has anybody found....”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet). From the entry pi-heptomino
  • It begins with the period-20 spaceship that consists of a p20 puffer stabilized by a third lwss; this is the basis for the standard p20 forward and backward rakes.1994 December 7, Paul Callahan, “Program to search for collisions in Conway's Life (C code)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet). From the entry LWSS
  • Within a few hours of finding the first period 2 ship, Dean had discovered a grammar for constructing an infinite number of different short, wide, period 2 spaceships.1992 August 27, David Bell, “Spaceships in Conway's Life (Part 2a)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet). From the entry grammar
  • The commonest use of sparks from these spaceships is to perturb an "engine" to produce puffer trains, or to modify stationary objects when the spaceships pass by.1992 August 13, David Bell, “Spaceships in Conway's Life (Part 1)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet). From the entry puffer train
  • This ship will follow along to the next collision point, which will not produce a spaceship, but rather some stable garbage, consisting of a block and a beehive.1991 January 10, Paul Callahan, “Questions and comments about Conway's Life (long)”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet). From the entry ship
  • A worldwide TV audience had a close-up view of the astronauts when they splashed down and as they emerged from the bobbing spaceship they call Gumdrop.1969 March 21, “Science: Rousing End to a Relaxed Flight”, in Time. From the entry close-up
  • That, says Donaldson, is the first question most people ask when they spot the red object that looks like a cross between a Hot Wheels and a Star Wars spaceship.1989 October 30, Jenny Labalme, “Donaldson's car is 'one-of-a-kind'”, in The Anniston Star, page 5A. From the entry hot wheels

Meaning of spaceship

  1. noun A manned vehicle that flies through space.
  2. noun A finite pattern that reappears after a certain number of generations in the same orientation but in a different position.
  3. noun The operator <=> in certain programming languages, which compares two values and indicates whether the first is lesser than, greater than, or equal to the second.

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Questions about spaceship in a sentence

How do you use spaceship in a sentence?
Spaceship is used as a noun. For example: “I don't think he'll succeed, but he's doing his darnedest to build a working spaceship.”
What is a short sentence with spaceship?
“The spaceship made an interdimensional jump.”
What does spaceship mean?
Spaceship means a manned vehicle that flies through space.

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