Sentence examples for torpedo from inspiring English sources
The phrase "torpedo" is correct and usable in written English, depending on the context.
It can be used metaphorically to describe something that is intended to destroy or undermine, often in a strategic or tactical sense. Example: "The new policy was designed to torpedo the opposition's chances in the upcoming election."
noun
A cylindrical explosive projectile that can travel underwater and is used as a weapon.
This meddling reflex led Sanderson and her colleagues, the cables show, to try to torpedo Préval's PetroCaribe deal with Venezuela, to help block a minimum wage hike to $5 a day (winning $3 a day, instead), and to rubberstamp and pay for an election that they knew was flawed from the start.
But two weeks away from the end-of-March deadline, it is unyielding conservatives in Washington, bolstered by the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, who are working hardest to torpedo the deal.
The EU legislation, if enacted, would torpedo sports sponsorship by e-cigarette makers who have become a valuable source of finance for football, rugby and motor-sport, among other events.
Iran's foreign minister has said that "excessive demands" by the west could torpedo the chances of a deal being reached over the future of the Iranian nuclear programme at negotiations in Vienna.
Limbaugh's argument about Bond being white and Scottish appears easy to torpedo.
These had to be pointed not at the target directly but, rather, at the place where the commander thought the target would be when the torpedo arrived.
Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister, may be reluctant to offend voters at home for the sake of a trade deal that America's legislators might promptly torpedo.
These moored observatories, though, can reach out beyond the range of their fixed instruments using robots.Most of these robots are torpedo-shaped ocean gliders (one of which is pictured above) that "fly" long distances through the sea, sampling sunlight penetration, chlorophyll and oxygen concentrations, and the density, pressure, temperature and salinity of the water.
At the end of July, the crew of the MIZ's research vessel, the good ship Ukpik ("snowy owl", in a local language), began the operation's next phase by deploying four instrument-laden robots known as Seagliders, which will roam the depths in search of readings.Seagliders are torpedo-shaped, but do not have conventional motors.
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In May he gave notice that his province would cancel its lease to the feds of a torpedo-testing range near Vancouver used by the American navy.
