Sentence examples for battleship through from inspiring English sources

That's like a hole you can drive a battleship through.

Thompson depicts Moosally, the ship's captain, as an inept seaman who gained command of the battleship through political connections.

The book was extremely critical of Moosally, depicting him as an inept seaman who gained command of the battleship through political connections.

The Japanese attempted to counter the battleships through the air.

Then we headed out to sea, escorting the battleship Massachusetts through the Panama Canal, and from there we went directly to Guadalcanal to join a screen of carriers.

When you've spent at least $320,000 (the Phantom's base price) on a car, you want everybody to notice you–and only a few people do when you're driving the Rolls through Times Square, where traffic is so slow that people have plenty of time to see this stately battleship coming through.

As a result, Kentucky was reordered as an Iowa-class battleship midway through the war.

This led to an extraordinary personal intervention by Emperor Meiji in a statement dated 10 February 1893, wherein the emperor offered to fund the construction of the two battleships himself, through an annual reduction in the expenses of the Imperial Household, and asked that all government officials likewise agree to a reduction in their salaries by ten percent.

The ships were named,, and and were designated Battleship Number 1 through 3.

Because of the better view afforded on the forward mast structure, the battleship was sailed through the Chesapeake Bay from the eighth level of the battleship's forward mast structure.

The request was for the battleship to proceed through a channel in which the United States Navy had strewn acoustic cables as part of an ongoing system development project that aimed to identify ships by their propeller signatures.