battleship
any of a class of warships that are the most heavily armored and are equipped with the most powerful armament.
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How to use battleship in a sentence
During the war, when he was on a battleship in the Mediterranean, she kept his photograph on her dressing-table, even though her father, who stuttered a lot, didn’t quite approve.
Like a life-size game of battleship, it just can’t hide anymore.
A CIA spyplane crashed outside Area 51 a half-century ago. This explorer found it. | Sarah Scoles | January 5, 2021 | Popular-ScienceUsing skewers/tooth picks, attach monkey bread, Cinnabons, and churros to battleship.
Epic Meal Empire’s Meat Monstrosities: From the Bacon Spider to the Cinnabattleship | Harley Morenstein | July 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSober and muted colors including shades of gray, one described in a local paper as ‘battleship,’ were prevalent.
The leading-man roles followed in the back-to-back 2012 blockbusters John Carter and battleship.
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Additional film credits include The Rundown, The Kingdom, Hancock, battleship, and the upcoming Cocaine Cowboys.
As a member of the Royal Navy, he was in charge of operating the searchlights on a battleship called the Valiant.
A Very Unhappy 92nd Birthday for Prince Philip as He Recovers From Surgery in Hospital | Tom Sykes | June 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe tailor of the fairy tale with his "seven at a blow" is not in it with the gunnery Lieutenant of a battleship.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonA Turkish battleship joined in from the Hellespont, dropping about twenty 11.2-inch shells into our lines.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonOne of these could tear a gaping hole in the side of a battleship and send it, with all on board, to the bottom.
Stories of Our Naval Heroes | VariousHe takes this as a pretty strong hint to push through, or, to make some sort of a battleship attack to support us.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 | Ian HamiltonIn that position neither the forward nor stern blasters of the battleship could touch it.
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British Dictionary definitions for battleship
/ (ˈbætəlˌʃɪp) /
a heavily armoured warship of the largest type having many large-calibre guns
(formerly) a warship of sufficient size and armament to take her place in the line of battle; ship of the line
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