Sentence examples for * gunboat from inspiring English sources

, which are guarded by gunboat.

Our lads sink gunboat and hole cruiser".

The nickname "Gunboat" came from the size of his feet.

It is like the gunboat diplomacy colonial powers used.

Sound of gunboat shelling is the most horrible.

It is inconceivable that a foreign power would fire on a stone barge laden with disappearing Americans, but there's hardly a gunboat captain alive who can resist tating a pot shot at another gunboat captain's gunboat.

Although the offi cial French reaction to Israel's circumvention of the gunboat embargo was moderate,.

The United States took possession of Guantánamo Bay through what might be called gunboat tenancy.

The killings caused China to send gunboat patrols to the region.

In 19th-century gunboat diplomacy a dictator or other mischief-maker gives tongue.

An Israeli gunboat patrolling against arms smuggling ordered him to stop and strip to his underwear.