Example sentences for: warships

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

  • De Grasse’s fleet of 34 warships was escorting a convoy of 150 cargo vessels to Santo Domingo (today’s Dominican Republic and Haiti) planning to join a Spanish naval venture against Britain’s base on Jamaica.

  • The river traffic is a motley flotilla of modern container ships and ocean-going junks — their sails the color of grime — of packed ferries and convoys of barges, warships, rusty coasters, and bobbing sampans.

  • It was from Kagoshima that the last desperate sorties of World War II were begun to resist an imminent US invasion, including the kamikaze raids on American warships.

  • Wouldn't we all have been better off, Sterba asks, if the United States, on its own, had dispatched a few warships to stop the Serbian barrage of Dubrovnik before it spiraled into the all-out war in Bosnia?

  • Navy warships in the Persian Gulf carrying cruise missiles capable of hitting Baghdad.


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