Example Sentences

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Despite what you may have heard, we haven’t yet detected any interstellar spaceships in the solar system.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

What’s Next: The restart of commercial missions with a mother ship and two Delta spaceships opens up the potential for $450 million in annual revenue across 125 flights, analysts at Jefferies said.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

Nominally designed as a spaceport, Lego aliens and spaceships populate the area.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

The spaceships of the future—the ones we imagine, or design on paper—have the signature feature of never blowing up.

From Slate • Dec. 9, 2025

Some of our old drawings are in there, my brother’s spaceships and red and gold explosions, my delicate, old-fashioned little girls.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood