Spruance
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The Touska was sailing to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas when it was warned repeatedly over a six hours by the USS Spruance, a guided-missile destroyer, that it was violating the blockade, U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
About 2,200 people work at the Spruance plant, including about 1,800 DuPont employees and several hundred contractors.
From Washington Times • Mar. 21, 2020
Kingsley The chef Roxanne Spruance, who was at Blue Hill and Alison Eighteen, will pursue French-American cuisine at her own place, a couple of years in the making.
From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2015
Spruance almost gags when he hears his music described as "otherworldly."
From Seattle Times • Feb. 2, 2012
At the last minute, Admiral Spruance decided to send the Twenty-seventh Army Division, the soldiers who were supposed to be our backups, to help take Saipan.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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