Sentence examples for a gunboat through from inspiring English sources

And pilot a gunboat through the Mekong Delta again, shooting up sampans while listening to "Sympathy for the Devil".

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.

The parliamentary electorate enjoyed the pictures of Julian Lewis steering a gunboat.

A gunboat chuffs up a river and fires a few shots.

We will not be sending a gunboat.' " Less than 18 months later, Argentina invaded.

We left at night, journeying in a gunboat along the eastern coast and around the top of the island.

Or 'The Farewell to Arms Boys Take a Gunboat'?" The book is about the command level in the Second World War.

A gunboat and later two transporters, complete with a party of marines, sailed up to a giant monastic house.

"As far as the war plan goes, this is perfect," said Chris, a lieutenant junior grade who commands a gunboat.

No problem for a fellow with the wiles of a fairy and the survival skills of a gunboat quartermaster.

Upon his release, Biddle was given command of a gunboat and assigned to protect the South Atlantic coast from pirates.