Sentence examples for a torpedo from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a torpedo" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to military, naval discussions, or metaphorically to describe something that is fast-moving or destructive.
Example: "The submarine launched a torpedo towards the enemy ship, aiming to disable it before it could retaliate."
Alternatives: "a missile" or "a projectile".

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Then a torpedo hits.

It looks as streamlined as a torpedo.

That night a torpedo hit the Lexington, killing nine.

This is a torpedo to the remain campaign's constant scaremongering.

Oooh another one's been brained by a torpedo.

Another cause may have been damage to a torpedo.

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These plows are sometimes equipped with a torpedo-shaped attachment for making subsurface drainage channels.

(The B-52 is Southern slang for a torpedo-shaped hairdo).

Fifty days after pollination, embryos were in the globular stage and after 60 days a torpedo-shaped morphology developed.

During filming, a Vultee BT-13 Valiant used as a torpedo bomber crashed on the island.

The basking sharks have had to adjust to the coming of a torpedo testing range.

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