Example sentences for: torpedo

How can you use “torpedo” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • They wanna torpedo my agenda

  • I doubt that it is accurate to define gunsel as a `callow youth,' a sense that probably rubbed off from the character played by Elisha Cook, Jr. in The Maltese Falcon: though he was referred to (by Bogart, as I recall) as a `punk' and `gunsel' and was portrayed as ineffectual, that does not justify a transferred definition: gunsel , probably from Yiddish, is a less common, old-fashioned term for `gunman, body guard, torpedo, hit man,' and the like, simply a `criminal who carries a gun,' and needs no (additional) pejorative treatment.

  • It's a torpedo bomber.

  • If you join the Old Guard aboard the "torpedo Content before anyone's even read the piece in question" bandwagon, it's less salutary for you.

  • The episode only ended when the sailor, who had locked himself in one of the vessel's torpedo bays, killed himself.


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