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How to use steamship in a sentence

12 example sentences · noun

Steamship means a ship or vessel propelled by steam power. Example: “The steamship made thousands of trips over several decades before it was retired by the shipping company.”

Examples of steamship by meaning

nounA ship or vessel propelled by steam power.

  • Steamship arrivals, however, are less predictable and the best arrangements of shipping companies and the railway operating department may be upset by weather and tide.1962 April, J. N. Faulkner, “Summer Saturday at Waterloo”, in Modern Railways, page 264
  • The shipwreck is the earliest examples yet found of a propeller-driven steamship on the Great Lakes.2015 October 22, Michael Pearson, “153-year-old shipwreck found in Lake Ontario”, in CNN
  • India’s half-hour zone dates back to colonial rule of India and the era when ever-faster steamships and trains were shrinking the world.2024 May 8, Dhruv Tikekar, “How India got stuck in its own unusual time zone”, in CNN

More sentences with steamship

  • The steamship made thousands of trips over several decades before it was retired by the shipping company.From the entry retire
  • The steamship was due to arrive in the Port of New York tomorrow.From the entry due to
  • Thick smoke belched through the funnels of the steamship.From the entry belch
  • Ocean-going steamships reach Wu-han and transport products to Shanghai and abroad.1968, “HUPEH”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 11, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 902, column 1. From the entry Hankow
  • They require men with master's tickets as dock masters and to command their steamships.1942 July-August, T. F. Cameron, “How the Staff of a Railway is Recruited”, in Railway Magazine, page 207. From the entry ticket
  • Reduction in time makes possible more frequent steamship services, more rapid delivery and lower operating costs.1928, Emory Richard Johnson with Grover Gerhardt Huebner and George Lloyd Wilson, Principles of transportation. From the entry unlike
  • When we got to Pa-tung, we found out that all the steamships have been requisitioned to transport ammunition and troops.1988 [1981], Hualing Nieh Engle, translated by Jane Parish Yang and Linda Lappin, Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China, Boston: Beacon…. From the entry Pa-tung
  • Him we enlisted at Para, on the recommendation of the steamship company, on whose vessels he had learned to speak a halting English.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry halting
  • There are also steamship connections with Hong Kong, direct or via Swatow, a coastal service between Bangkok and the ports of French Indo-China, and occasional sailings to Java.1920, Irving National Bank, Trading with the Far East: How to Sell in the Orient: Policies: Methods: Advertising: Credits: Financing…. From the entry Swatow

Meaning of steamship

  1. noun A ship or vessel propelled by steam power.

Full definition of steamship

Questions about steamship in a sentence

How do you use steamship in a sentence?
Steamship is used as a noun. For example: “The steamship made thousands of trips over several decades before it was retired by the shipping company.”
What is a short sentence with steamship?
“Thick smoke belched through the funnels of the steamship.”
What does steamship mean?
Steamship means a ship or vessel propelled by steam power.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: steamship (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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