Sentence examples for warships spread from inspiring English sources
The United States has now amassed a military force of 28,000 sailors, airmen and troops, more than 300 warplanes and two dozen warships spread for thousands of miles across a military theater with Iraq and Afghanistan at its heart.
"Our small warships are spread around the coast on full alert, and why?
For example, when in 1885 Hong Kong workers refused to unload a French warship, their action spread to coolies, boatmen, and rickshaw pullers.
They carried a total of 44000 sqft of sail area, excluding the stunsails, the greatest area ever spread in a British warship.
However, word spread that a British warship was advancing up the river, and half the New England troops fled out of fright.
Their mission was to spread a (literal) smoke screen between the allied warships and the shore, thus shielding them from German artillery.
But the government says the North is using the Internet to spread conspiracy theories about who was behind the sinking of the South Korean warship, including one claim that an American submarine did so to foster a militant mood in the South.
The speed at which the flu spread, coupled with the cramped mess decks and poorly ventilated living spaces on early 20th century warships, created a favorable environment for the disease.
And the United States entered Vietnam not to avenge two attacks on American warships in the Gulf of Tonkin (one of which didn't occur) but because President Lyndon B. Johnson wanted to prevent the spread of Communism.
