aircraft carrier
a warship equipped with a large open deck for the taking off and landing of warplanes and with facilities to carry, service, and arm them.
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How to use aircraft carrier in a sentence
Some of us are sitting on aircraft carriers while others are just bobbing along on a floatie.
Postcard From Thermal: Surviving the Climate Gap in Eastern Coachella Valley | by Elizabeth Weil and Mauricio Rodríguez Pons | August 17, 2021 | ProPublicaJust know that changing the school district is like turning an aircraft carrier.
American Schools Are Failing to Equip Students With Racial Literacy—And We've Seen Firsthand How It Happens | Priya Vulchi | August 13, 2021 | TimeShe said she was 17 when she first took the oath to “defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic” and had done that by serving on aircraft carriers in the Middle East, launching strikes against terrorist targets.
Reps. Raskin, Luria to serve on committee probing Jan. 6 riot at U.S. Capitol | Meagan Flynn | July 1, 2021 | Washington PostI’ve sailed through the Suez Canal many times—as a junior officer, a captain of a destroyer, a commodore in command of a group of destroyers, and as a strike group commander on the nuclear aircraft carrier Enterprise.
The Blocked Suez Canal Isn't the Only Waterway the World Should Be Worried About | James Stavridis | March 29, 2021 | TimeFollowing graduation in 1971, Combs served in the US Navy for a period that included two tours on an aircraft carrier in combat waters off Vietnam.
Retired rear admiral equips the pandemic’s frontline fighters | Katie McLean | February 24, 2021 | MIT Technology Review
The U.S.S. George H.W. Bush, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, has been dispatched to the Persian Gulf.
And maybe that video of George W. Bush strutting around on an aircraft carrier in his flight suit.
Want To Know What America Thinks of Itself? Watch Jack Ryan on Wall Street | Andrew Romano | January 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOn Thursday, the relief effort intensified with the arrival of an American aircraft carrier group just offshore.
Typhoon Haiyan: The Philippine Village that Lost Its Men | The Telegraph | November 17, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHe spoke as the US Navy said that its aircraft carrier the USS George Washington arrived to help the relief effort.
Typhoon Haiyan Tacloban Leaders Calls on Rebels to Avoid Armed Violence | The Telegraph | November 14, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThat dance does more harm to the Republic than an aircraft carrier full of Randy “Duke” Cunninghams ever could.
Congressmen Come and Go, but Corruption Is Here to Stay | Lawrence Lessig | June 7, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTNext day an aircraft carrier put out of Naples with an escort of destroyers.
The Invaders | William Fitzgerald JenkinsIll be ready to sail in a month or two, on an aircraft carrier.
Sally Scott of the Waves | Roy J. SnellMinutes later, the two boys embarked in a motor launch that took them to an aircraft carrier standing by in the vicinity.
Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung | Victor AppletonThey were met by bombs from every plane the aircraft carrier could muster and from thirty land bombers as well.
Sally Scott of the Waves | Roy J. SnellThe speedy aircraft carrier seemed to fairly leap along, carrying her home to America.
Sally Scott of the Waves | Roy J. Snell
British Dictionary definitions for aircraft carrier
a warship built with an extensive flat deck space for the launch and recovery of aircraft
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