Sentence examples for destroyer from inspiring English sources

Any questions?" One sprang immediately to mind: why did my starship destroyer have a name like a toilet cleaner?

Not a wilful one, she was a destroyer with a purpose.

Slip beneath Malta's warm winter water to dive a haunting underwater graveyard including a Blenheim bomber and the destroyer HMS Maori.

"'Obamacare' is a destroyer.

She was a destroyer.

Officially, the Izumo is a destroyer; when it enters service in 2015 it will come with a complement of up to 14 helicopters that will be used for anti-submarine warfare and border-surveillance missions.

Among the vessels inspected by President Hu Jintao from on board a Chinese-made destroyer were two nuclear-powered submarines.

This time China's response was to send a fishery patrol ship (hardly a match for a destroyer) to the area.

The Chinese sent a destroyer, a frigate and a supply ship (pictured) along with a hospital ship and 1,100 men.

The heavily unionised workforce, however, sees the idea as a potential job-destroyer.

It is even more surprising, given that his fame was made as the co-destroyer of Richard Nixon in the early 1970s, when with Carl Bernstein he revealed the Watergate scandal in the paper that employs him, the Washington Post, and later wrote "All the President's Men".