Sentence examples for driven the ship from inspiring English sources

A freak tropical storm had driven the ship, a rust bucket named the Mercedes, hard against her wall.

By 8 May a continuous southerly gale had driven the ship northwards, still locked in the ice, out of McMurdo Sound and into the open Ross Sea.

I think he realizes he only has to drive the ship.

Then he told me that I could drive the ship back to earth.

In order to minimize engine noise, which may interfere with sonar sensors, diesel generators power electric motors, which in turn drive the ship's propellers.

They get to help set sails, drive the ship or participate in special education programs on celestial navigation or the history of New York Harbor.

Though it is not clear how she knows about an ocean crossing of Jesuits to South America in 1605, that "gigantic waves hurled themselves onto the vessel, throwing up thick columns of spray that then collapsed upon the deck, drenching everything in a foamy swirl and threatening to drive the ship onto the jagged rocks," her information is mostly substantive.

"I vividly remember the atmosphere of that first festival, exciting, vivid and argumentative, and we did feel that at last those of us in the engine room could drive the ship," says Bragg. "We were very determined to make it the place where producers and programme-makers had their public say.

I only drive the ship, there's a huge team at home".

For it does not drive the ship forward, but turns it while it moves, receiving the sea at an angle.

So when the duo launched Burrow's first ergonomically-designed, flat-pack sofa this past spring, fashion and function drove the ship.