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battleship
[ bat-l-ship ]
noun
- any of a class of warships that are the most heavily armored and are equipped with the most powerful armament.
battleship
/ ˈbætəlˌʃɪp /
noun
- 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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Example Sentences
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.
Using skewers/tooth picks, attach monkey bread, Cinnabons, and churros to battleship.
Sober 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.
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.
The tailor of the fairy tale with his "seven at a blow" is not in it with the gunnery Lieutenant of a battleship.
A Turkish battleship joined in from the Hellespont, dropping about twenty 11.2-inch shells into our lines.
One of these could tear a gaping hole in the side of a battleship and send it, with all on board, to the bottom.
He takes this as a pretty strong hint to push through, or, to make some sort of a battleship attack to support us.
In that position neither the forward nor stern blasters of the battleship could touch it.
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