Sentence examples for of a freighter from inspiring English sources

JR: Yeah, it's more of a freighter.

Photo: Rough seas and a remote location have hampered efforts to reach oil spilled from the halves of a freighter that went aground last week.

A federal report shows that the environmental damage from the grounding of a freighter on the Oregon coast in 1999 was much greater than thought.

The refugees were crammed into the cargo holds of a freighter that held 47 crewmen and was designed to carry about a dozen passengers.

At the beginning of my novel "The Whispering Muse," the two main narrators meet for the first time in the mess room of a freighter on its maiden journey from Denmark to the Black Sea.

In 1957 the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company commissioned the construction of a freighter that was to be the then largest ship on the Great Lakes, measuring 729 feet (222 metres) long and weighing more than 13,600 tons.

She came to this country at the age of 8, on a freighter, with other members of her family and became Labor Secretary for President George W. Bush – the first Chinese American ever appointed to a Cabinet post.

Stallone plays Barney Ross, leader of a crew of mercenaries, first glimpsed taking out a gang of Somali pirates on a freighter the raiders have held for three months.

I determined to find a spot on a freighter of my own when I was old enough, and follow in his footsteps.

A Moscow court arrested eight people on Friday suspected of hijacking a freighter at the center of a monthlong high-seas mystery, according to Russian news agencies.

Off the coast of Florida, a freighter and its crew of ten were stranded after the storm flooded its engine room.