Examples of aircraft carrier in a Sentence
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The output of its blast furnaces formed the tanks, planes and aircraft carriers that helped win World War II, as well as the automobiles and appliances that consumers purchased during the postwar boom.
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Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
But the film’s sense of scope is no smaller for it: Shots of aircraft carriers flying across the screen like toy boats and fishing boats dwarfed by the monster’s massive head create a sense of awe-inspiring scale.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2024
Victor Glover, a test pilot with combat experience over Iraq, is far removed from aircraft carriers, fighter jets and boyhood dreams of traveling into space.
—Scott Neuman, NPR, 27 Feb. 2024
China’s third aircraft carrier, Fujian, is nearing its sea trials.
—Gil Barndollar, TIME, 12 Feb. 2024
For more than two decades, U.S. fighter jets operating from aircraft carriers in the Middle East carried out air raids against Islamic State group militants in Iraq and Syria, Saddam Hussein’s forces in Iraq and Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, as well as other missions.
—Courtney Kube, NBC News, 5 Feb. 2024
Their strategy is now being used to help land drones on aircraft carriers, and Boeing plans to test it on an experimental aircraft this year.
—Steve Nadis, WIRED, 4 Feb. 2024
Targets were reportedly struck by U.S. F/A-18 fighter jets from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier and by the USS Gravely and the USS Carney Navy destroyers firing Tomahawk missiles from the Red Sea.
—Lillian Boyd, The Arizona Republic, 30 Jan. 2024
Her parents met when both were in the U.S. Navy and members of a rock band aboard the aircraft carrier USS Essex.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2024
Jeff Stein, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
But the film’s sense of scope is no smaller for it: Shots of aircraft carriers flying across the screen like toy boats and fishing boats dwarfed by the monster’s massive head create a sense of awe-inspiring scale.
—Katie Rife, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2024
Victor Glover, a test pilot with combat experience over Iraq, is far removed from aircraft carriers, fighter jets and boyhood dreams of traveling into space.
—Scott Neuman, NPR, 27 Feb. 2024
China’s third aircraft carrier, Fujian, is nearing its sea trials.
—Gil Barndollar, TIME, 12 Feb. 2024
For more than two decades, U.S. fighter jets operating from aircraft carriers in the Middle East carried out air raids against Islamic State group militants in Iraq and Syria, Saddam Hussein’s forces in Iraq and Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, as well as other missions.
—Courtney Kube, NBC News, 5 Feb. 2024
Their strategy is now being used to help land drones on aircraft carriers, and Boeing plans to test it on an experimental aircraft this year.
—Steve Nadis, WIRED, 4 Feb. 2024
Targets were reportedly struck by U.S. F/A-18 fighter jets from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier and by the USS Gravely and the USS Carney Navy destroyers firing Tomahawk missiles from the Red Sea.
—Lillian Boyd, The Arizona Republic, 30 Jan. 2024
Her parents met when both were in the U.S. Navy and members of a rock band aboard the aircraft carrier USS Essex.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Mar. 2024
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“Aircraft carrier.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aircraft%20carrier. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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