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Sentence Examples The British had recommended that steel be diverted from the construction of battleships and heavy cruisers to convoy escorts and landing craft. The harbour has both a commercial quayside and marina which was crowded with expensive yachts and cruisers. The cops merely have to line up a bunch of cruisers along St-Antoine, a few more on McGill and de la Commune and the jig is up. The Combined Fleet flew in a wedge formation, with the battleships at the point and the cruisers on the flanks. The next highest categories were personal watercraft, cabin cruisers, canoes, rowboats and kayaks. At other tables, several pasty-faced types in puffed-out shirts lazily gorged themselves on cruisers ' cuisine. Driving full throttle on his wheel rims, he trundled back to Augusta at 30 mph and meandered through downtown, trailed by a posse of 14 cruisers. Here many of the private cruisers dock for long liquid lunches at beachfront restaurants, after a spot of snorkeling at White Bay. I watched cabin cruisers arc through the large triangular confluence, then, my detour done, wandered back for the walk proper. They also have a loungewear line that might appeal to classic long board cruisers. The first paintball markers were used by timber cruisers and lumbermen to mark the trees selected for harvesting or cutting. Yet, in 1914 the Navy appropriated sixty-nine merchant ships for use as auxiliary cruisers. The 32 warships of the Royal Navy included five carriers, six cruisers, seven destroyers, and 14 frigates. The boss of a supermarket is to put barriers across its car park to keep out car cruisers who use it as a meeting place. At sea, he served in a battleship, an aircraft carrier, in cruisers, destroyers, frigates, and a minesweeper. At sea are five giant aircraft carriers, four of which have their own battle fleets of destroyers, cruisers and submarines, totalling 25 ships. Admiral Kondo's main force of two battleships and six heavy cruisers followed soon after. He saw future naval confrontations whereby the battleships and cruisers of a fleet would protect the carriers. Unlike aboard a frigate, the men aboard the Navy's battleships and cruisers felt nothing during transit. In the 1950s he qualified as a naval architect, and designed other boats, including small dinghies, trailer-sailers, yachts and cabin cruisers. Show More Sentences The harbour is to be dredged, and a pontoon will be built across the middle, the better to accommodate sailing cruisers. This prevented another bombardment of Henderson Field by the Japanese battleships, but that night their cruisers shelled it heavily. The first ships hit were the cruisers USS Helena and USS Raleigh, the battleships USS Oklahoma and USS Utah, and the minelayer USS Olgala. Seven battleships, six cruisers and several torpedo boats steamed among the trawlers. Cruise lines are constantly geared toward providing a steady flow of shipboard entertainment for cruisers to enjoy. At the weekends, yachts and cruisers of all sizes criss-cross the blue water. Exploring Mars requires no miraculous new technologies, no orbiting spaceports, and no gigantic interplanetary space cruisers. Never mind the fact that the cruisers gracing the city roads are mere pocket versions of their original cousins built for autobahns and freeways. With the databases obtained from the alien refugees, they incoming ships were identified as Dreadnoughts, which are obsolescent capital cruisers. When surface combat began in August 1942, American heavy cruisers had to do the work of battleships against Japanese capital ships. Lisan yelled out in surprise as she pointed at the large capital ship and three gunboats sitting behind the first three cruisers. There are also private charters available aboard sailing yachts and luxury cruisers. If we treated the cruisers right, and just 20 percent came back as overnight visitors, that would be a million more overnighters per year. They're neither fast enough to inspire hot-rodding, nor large enough to be used as party cruisers. But one of the heavy cruisers was maneuvering to intercept them, and was closing fast. Out in front were the destroyers, cruisers and battleships and behind moved the concentration of troop and supply ships. The cruisers and two pinnaces remained behind while Hillary's pinnace fled with another. For us first-time cruisers it was all a bit of a giggle, especially when it was pointed out that my lifejacket was on inside out. The corvettes, released from their missile defense duties, surged forward to engage the renegade cruisers at point blank range. A further 17 aircraft carriers, six battleships, 16 cruisers and 56 destroyers were also tasked in support. Show More Sentences A carrier strike group typically contains an aircraft carrier and other vessels such as destroyers and cruisers that protect it. I like the ships of the Navy, nervous darting destroyers, sleek cruisers, majestic battle ships, steady solid carriers and secretive submarines. He could see a massive row of cruisers and destroyers, accompanied by a single battleship. Many cruisers from neighboring islands who congregated in its marinas for safe haven found themselves in the bull's eye of a Category 4 storm. Customers range from commercial fishermen to live-aboard cruisers and most boats have been built to meet the buyer's specific requirements. Future surveys are expected to include a greater range of boat models, including cruisers and personal watercraft. If you look, you can find a few stores for basics, although most cruisers get things shipped in. One of his jobs is to provide the diesel fuel that visiting cruisers need because there is no diesel service at the marina. Since then, the company has expanded its survey to include all types of boats, from cruisers to wake boards, as well as engines. She wrote with concern about the lack of accommodations for the cruisers who are hard-of-hearing. After over 60 cruises she decided to compile her expertise in an e-book to share with other cruiser, first timers or seasoned cruisers. They quickly covered the distance from the barricade to the sedan, weaving around police cruisers and unconsciously avoiding all officers. A number of police cruisers screeched to a halt and formed a barrier for other officers to use as cover. Karen was a little worried about being left alone, but the knowledge of the patrolling police cruisers calmed her down. And a lot of police officers are jumping in their police cruisers and going down there to help. The Seahawk is operational on US Navy frigates, destroyers and guided missile cruisers. A fusillade of cruise missiles had been launched from four US cruisers and a submarine, and a supporting British sub. The four cruisers and two gunboats of the Caribbean Squadron awaited them there. The cruisers swung around the southern pole and nosed upward toward the enemy flotilla, simultaneously disgorging volleys of missiles. There are of course more potent ships to command, specifically destroyers, cruisers and dreadnoughts. Show More Sentences After totaling the vehicle, not to mention about nine police cruisers, he is sent to a prison in the middle of nowhere. The Germans lost 2 capital ships, 3 cruisers, 5 destroyers, and 2,115 dead. Up front, just behind the spearhead of mine sweepers, battleships and cruisers, were the command ships, the attack transports bristling with radar and radio antennae. Instead of driving to the new hot spot or hopping out of their cars to do foot patrols, some uniform cops used the program as an excuse to idle in their cruisers. Nor do his deputies have bulletproof vests or computer terminals for their patrol cars, which are common in big-city police cruisers to call up information on suspects. And then he himself, in the King George V, was in at the death, battleships, battle-cruisers, the fleet air arm, cruisers, and destroyers, all having taken part in the chase. The single engine, semi-displacement hull form with deep forefoot and a long deep keel actually more closely resembles Down East-style workboats and cruisers. Some board sleek white yachts and luxury cruisers, while others crowd onto lumbering, hooting ferries or the faster yellow and blue hydrofoils called Flying Dolphins. The ray, which proved effective at a range of 160 feet in testing in early July, projects from an antenna that can be mounted on the roof of police cruisers. Ten merchant ships were used as armed merchant raiders, or auxiliary cruisers, and a few were employed as blockade runners between Japan and Germany. The government ploughed funds into four new battleships, two aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, and submarines, with much of the work going to the Clyde. Basildon police are monitoring an internet website which they believe is responsible for more than 200 cruisers racing their cars at an industrial estate in the town. More and more cruisers and pleasure boats have been berthed along the banks of the canal in the village and the effect has resulted in a boost for local businesses. Nicolas pulled up close behind them just as several more police cruisers, lights flashing and sirens blaring, screamed to a halt in front of the house. Two police cruisers, lights flashing, sat near the main entrance. Although most fleet Kingfishers were catapulted from the fantails of battleships and cruisers, the Navy also tried mounting them on the stern of destroyers. With few exceptions, noticeably the larger and more expensive inboard cruisers, new boat sales have been on a steady downward trend for more than a decade. Four police cruisers responded to the call within a few minutes. These weren't frigates, cruisers, carriers or even battleships. The wreck lies on its port side, the only one of the light cruisers in this position, so we finned to the right along the now-vertical deck, taking in the sights. Show More Sentences Accompanying them are two guided missile cruisers, a destroyer, a nuclear submarine, as well as refueling ships, heavy equipment transports and support vessels. If my trawl is indicative, net cruisers must grow mighty frustrated. The burning ship soon attracted the attention of other vessels and a flotilla of fishing vessels, pleasure cruisers and jet skis turned up to help. When I started, cruisers always bragged about being tough and Spartan. On the way out to sea for exercises they clattered past lines of battleships and cruisers, from whose sparkling decks immaculate officers looked down on them with disdain. Officers who had for years aspired to command destroyers, cruisers, and aircraft carriers likely did not relish the thought of becoming truck drivers. True, fighters can scramble to a hot spot earlier than a cruiser, but what's the point in doing so when they get shot down by enemy cruisers in two seconds? There was less than a minute of silence, and then two police cruisers tore down the vacuous street with their sirens on and stopped in front of the restaurant. The monthly event, stewarded by the cruisers themselves, aims at driving away the minority of troublemakers who race each other and perform dangerous, screeching wheelspins. That cruisers talked to cruisers across vast distances like synapses discharging in a megamind could not be proven mathematically. Some erstwhile Bermuda cruisers have courted controversy by misplaying their move. We combined the design frame of our Townie in the classic retro look of our cruisers. To protect themselves from the lurking police cruisers, truckers purchased CB units in large numbers. Street bikes include cruisers, sportbikes, scooters and mopeds, and many other types. Another technique often used by cruisers is to set two head sails, one to port and one to starboard. Instead, German naval strategy relied on commerce raiding using capital ships, armed merchant cruisers, submarines and aircraft. Available to the fleet were five battleships, 20 cruisers, 65 destroyers, and two monitors. The Western Task Force included the battleships Arkansas, Nevada, and Texas, plus eight cruisers, 28 destroyers, and one monitor. Navy, destroyed over 30 percent of the Japanese Navy, including 8 aircraft carriers, 1 battleship and 11 cruisers. Four Russian battleships and two cruisers were sunk in succession, with the fifth and last battleship being forced to scuttle a few weeks later. Show More Sentences This approximately doubled the allocated number of ships to 38 battleships, 20 armoured cruisers, 38 light cruisers. Three more light cruisers were damaged, 712 sailors killed, 530 injured and 336 taken prisoner. Tyrwhitt signalled Beatty requesting reinforcements, and Goodenough with the four cruisers remaining with him came to assist. Four German cruisers survived the engagement, which they would not have done except for the mist. They felt as we should have felt had German destroyers broken into the Solent and their battle cruisers penetrated as far as the Nab. The Germans had assumed that their cruisers, leaving port one by one, would not meet larger ships or major forces. Goodenough, on the other hand, had managed to lose track of two cruisers, which therefore played no further part in the battle. The light cruisers Frauenlob, Strassburg and Stettin had also been damaged and returned to base with casualties. On the British side, the eight armoured cruisers were deficient in both speed and armour protection. British battlecruisers were designed to chase and destroy enemy cruisers from out of the range of those ships. Scheer had ordered his cruisers and destroyers forward in a torpedo attack to cover the turning away of his battleships. It was the first practical testing of the new steel battleships, cruisers, destroyers, submarines, and torpedo boats. By war's end, torpedoes launched from warships had sunk one battleship, two armored cruisers, and two destroyers. The range of boats expanded to include powered cruisers in the 1930s, and the Hoseasons agency was founded soon after the Second World War. As such they are often built as cruisers allowing more comfortable sea passages. These forces would be supported by a surface strike force of two cruisers, a seaplane carrier, naval aircraft, submarines and support vessels. The Indian naval forces attacking Goa included an aircraft carrier, two cruisers, eight frigates and five other ships. In the 20th century, ships became large enough that the larger types, cruisers and up, could accommodate a commander and staff. The two Allied cruisers were sunk, while a Japanese minesweeper and a transport vessel were sunk by friendly fire. That sparked a high-speed car chase into Lexington before police cruisers boxed in the getaway car. Show More Sentences The loch is open to every kind of watercraft including kayaks, canoes, windsurfers, jet skis, speedboats and cruisers and they are all very well represented. Among the vessels on display include a complete range of power boats to 50 feet, sport fishing boats, ski boats, family cruisers, pontoon boats, and personal water craft. The fleet included six cruisers, four torpedo boats, a torpedo gunboat, 13 gunships and other auxiliary and minor vessels, with a submarine under construction. Meanwhile, Hitler sacked Raeder after the embarrassing Battle of the Barents Sea, in which two German heavy cruisers were beaten off by half a dozen British destroyers. They were supported at longer range by an additional six light cruisers commanded by William Goodenough, and five battlecruisers commanded by Vice Admiral David Beatty. The cruisers ended by not to be built and the seaplane carrier started to be built, but was later canceled and replaced by other additional ships. Still unaware that any additional British ships had been sent to support the action, he signalled Invincible that he was chasing two German cruisers. Keyes, seeing he was now being chased by four more enemy cruisers attempted to lead them towards Invincible and New Zealand, reporting them as enemy ships. Last year 91 colourful riders took part astride vintage cruisers, boneshakers, choppers and even a tandem, raising more than PS5,400 for Daft as a Brush. At the start of the war, the German Empire had cruisers scattered across the globe, some of which were subsequently used to attack Allied merchant shipping. There were not enough sport bikes in the survey for a statistically significant conclusion, though the data hinted at reliability as good as cruisers. A British fleet of 31 destroyers and two cruisers under Commodore Reginald Tyrwhitt and submarines commanded by Commodore Roger Keyes was dispatched. The German High Seas Fleet could muster at least 13 dreadnoughts and many armoured cruisers along with dozens of destroyers to attack the Channel. Keyes was disappointed that the opportunity for a greater success had been lost by not including the additional cruisers properly into the plan as he had originally intended. In 1898 came the first German Fleet Act, two years later a second doubled the number of ships to be built, to 19 battleships and 23 cruisers in the next 20 years. In all the fleet would have five squadrons of eight battleships, twelve large cruisers and thirty small, plus additional cruisers for overseas duties. Heavily outnumbered by Boedicker's four light cruisers, Chester was pounded before being relieved by Hood's heavy units, which swung westward for that purpose. All cruisers were equipped with turbine engines from 1908 onwards. British ships both failed to report engagements with the enemy but also, in the case of cruisers and destroyers, failed to actively seek out the enemy. There were also to be 38 light cruisers, and 144 torpedo boats. Show More Sentences The vehicles initially were mainly Government Ambassadors but gradually gave way to more expensive models like Mitsubishi Pajeros, Scorpios, Monteros and Land cruisers. Shortages of funding meant it was not possible to create several designs of cruisers specialised for long range work, or more heavily armoured for fleet work. Essentially very small cruisers, torpedo gunboats were equipped with torpedo tubes and an adequate gun armament, intended for hunting down smaller enemy boats. Examples from Classical Literature Seven of the battle cruisers fired as one, and were joined by all the firepower of their escort ships. That slaver was captured by one of our cruisers, and taken to Sierra Leone. I was asleep in my cabin when the news came that hipper was coming south with the British battle cruisers on his beam. Several cruisers, and later a battleship and battle cruiser, mounted guard over the expedition. Two subchaser units, six boats, were assigned as a screen to the Italian cruisers while the bombardment was under way. It is from there down to the mouth of the Gironde that their cruisers are so thick. The cruisers did not overhaul the little vessel as rapidly as Madden had anticipated. They sent their revenue cutters and dispatch boots and lighthouse tenders, and they sent their last antiquated cruisers and battleships. As yet the battleships and armoured cruisers had not left Kiel. The German battle cruisers also turned to a northwesterly course. Do you imagine you can outrun two squadrons of German cruisers? An aircraft carrier wallowed alongside the formation of cruisers. The Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau were armoured cruisers of 11,600 tons. They were accompanied by the Australian cruisers Melbourne and Sydney. They've run away from second class Russian cruisers more than once up there off Siberia. I've heard about your handiness with the thrust buckets on the cruisers. Three staterooms including a large master midship a double and twin guest, accommodate fellow cruisers in style. That night a German fleet made a dash on Honolulu, sinking three American cruisers and a revenue cutter, and bombarding the city. On November 22, 1942, Fraser was sent to attack a flotilla of three Italian light cruisers off the toe of Italy. The Belgian ports were blockaded by the cruisers of Holland and Zealand. Show More Sentences If I hoped to serve my country there and sweep the Confederate cruisers from the Adriatic, I am afraid my prime intent was to add to her literature and to my own credit. To accompany the Volkl skis, I wore Tecnica's Diablo Fire boots, a top-end, all-mountain model made to take on steep faces, bumps, powder and groomed cruisers. Find more words! 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