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Sentence Examples Lord Shiva the destroyer, is one of the three primary Hindu deities or Trimurti. Terms like goddess, Kali and destroyer mingle freely in reinforcing this cult of vengeful violence. That one destroyer is the only one of them who's done any damage to speak of. Shiva the destroyer is a necessary part of the trinity because, without destruction, there can be no recreation. The Royal Navy group, which will include a submarine, a frigate, a destroyer and two support vessels, will set out from Portsmouth on Saturday. With their destroyer obliterated the pirates fled in all directions and then regrouped back together to resume their attack. The Type 42 destroyer has made a symbolic final entry into her home base, Portsmouth, trailing her decommissioning pennant. Where nature is usually personified as a woman, and man the destroyer, here the roles are reversed. This would make a great difference in a situation where a destroyer developed critical problems while on assignment away from its base. As the gold sailed back to England, the destroyer was hit and sunk by a magnetic mine. The most important of these include a predatory spider mite, the mite destroyer beetle, the six-spotted thrips and the minute pirate bug. Royal Navy destroyer HMS Exeter has carried out trailblazing exercises with the Chinese Navy in the Yellow Sea. Veteran Royal Navy destroyer HMS Newcastle is enjoying a high-profile sunset to her distinguished Naval career. It's kind of hard not to think of the bigger picture when a destroyer and an aircraft carrier are docked in the bay a few miles away. Shiva is the destroyer of the world, following Brahma the creator and Vishnu the preserver, after which Brahma again creates the world and so on. Women have been going to sea in the RN for 14 years, so the prospect of a female commanding officer of a destroyer or frigate draws ever nearer. It is interesting to me that the profile of a WWII German pocket battleship should resemble a British Type 45 next generation missile destroyer. It was only discovered by chance in 2001 by a diving party searching for the wreck of a naval destroyer sunk by a U-boat during World War Two. He who turned the water into wine, who is the destroyer of the bitter taste, who is sweetness and altogether desire. The tank destroyer pulled up beside the foxhole to speak to the young paratrooper. Show More Sentences Soon Mitscher had to transfer by boatswain's chair to the destroyer English, which flew his three-starred flag with unaccustomed pride. He was one of 160 blacks chosen to serve on the Mason, a destroyer escort assigned to shepherd convoys of Army barges and tugs from the United States to England. Accompanying them are two guided missile cruisers, a destroyer, a nuclear submarine, as well as refueling ships, heavy equipment transports and support vessels. The destroyer has now returned to her home port of Portsmouth, and is undergoing preparations for a docking and maintenance period which will last throughout the summer. The starboard side of the catamaran is no longer part of the destroyer. The fleet includes a submarine, a destroyer and an aircraft carrier. Royal Navy destroyer HMS Nottingham has been holed by rocks off Australia. Nato also has dispatched seven frigates, a destroyer, and an auxiliary oiler to the Mediterranean to take the place of American naval assets there. Squadron Leader Learmonth was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross for his attack on the destroyer, and a bar in August 1943 as Commanding Officer of No.22 Squadron. She was sighted by a British aircraft, picked up again by the destroyer Sheffield, and in the evening attacked by a swarm of aircraft from the carrier Ark Royal. In this exhibition, the gallery floor resembled a crowded marina with an unlikely array of vessels, among them a tall ship, a tugboat, a destroyer, a cruise ship and others. Far from being a destroyer of the written word, the Internet, with Google as a leading vehicle, will prove to be its great support and egalitarian promulgator. It populated the battalion partly with soldiers who had gone through basic training elsewhere as tank destroyer crewmen and partly with raw recruits. The USS Arleigh Burke, a destroyer, and USS Philippine Sea, a cruiser, launched a total of 47 Tomahawk missiles. Gunns is also a destroyer of native forests on other private land, by means of joint ventures or other commercial arrangements with owners of native forests. A relative of a man killed when a World War Two destroyer was sunk is to complain to the Ministry of Defence after an Orkney-based dive team removed items from the war grave. During a night operation in the Solomon Islands in 1943, the patrol torpedo boat he commanded was rammed by a Japanese destroyer. The destroyer Express took us in tow, but the towline parted so she came alongside and took the troops and wounded on board and left us a sitting duck. Some see all significance in the grim front of the destroyer, and some in the bitter sufferers of the Lost Cause. Tuesday, the pirates launched a rocket-propelled grenade at the American destroyer that was shadowing the distressed Quest. Show More Sentences By 1 February, U.S. naval intelligence was tracking a Kildin guided-missile destroyer, a Kotlin destroyer, a Riga destroyer escort, and four auxiliaries in the Sea of Japan. The destroyer will be a highly potent, multi-role platform capable of operations across the spectrum of tasks from peace support to high-intensity warfare. There she is named as one who is prosperous, yet fierce and passionate, a great mother, a refuge, a divine destroyer, a benevolent goddess, a protectress. The French destroyer Kersaint, which was guarding Haifa port as part of Operation Musketeer, returned fire but failed to score any hits. Major naval projects include the Astute class nuclear submarine, Type 45 air defence destroyer and Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carrier. There were 336 prisoners of war taken, of which 224 Germans were rescued by Commodore Keyes on the destroyer Lurcher and brought to England. Bingham was rescued, and won the Victoria Cross for his leadership in the destroyer action. The usual remedy of increased destroyer raids was not possible, because of the difficulty in using Zeebrugge as a harbour. He was in the forward gun turret where the destroyer hit us. He was not a destroyer seeking to become exceptional by killing. A vessel of the Italian navy, a destroyer of the Navigatori class, was named after Verrazzano. Last August, Protecteur was involved in a collision with Canadian Navy's destroyer HMCS Algonquin during towing exercises en route to Hawaii. The picture was taken from the deck of the destroyer HMS Forester with a Brownie box camera. The Navy's newest Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, Halsey, was christened on 17 January. One of the most insignificant-looking men I ever saw then became the destroyer of nations, the leveller of mountains, the exhauster of the ocean. The Egyptian warship was then sunk by escorting destroyer HMS Diana, with 69 surviving Egyptian sailors rescued. The Type 42 destroyer HMS Edinburgh took over the South Atlantic Patrol Task in October 2006, replacing HMS Southampton. In August 2010, HMS Portland was relieved by the Type 42 destroyer HMS Gloucester. The submarines were to leave to take up their positions on 26 August, while Keyes would travel on the destroyer Lurcher. He sighted Stettin, but lost her in the mist before coming upon Fearless and her destroyer squadron. Show More Sentences The destroyer eventually became the predominant type of surface warship in the guided missile age. A senior British naval officer arrived by destroyer on 16 June and the evacuation began the next day. This, however, failed when an escorting destroyer caught the line with its anchor. The dreadlocked destroyer plundered 34 points and Reggie Kirk weighed in with 22 as the Bullets overcame a difficult start. Might the sport revealed and recognized as a destroyer of postplaying lives become more of a turnoff? According to Hindu tradition, the king is the avatar of Vishnu, destroyer of demons, who was born to be the defender of the people. Navy sent aircraft and a destroyer, USS Farragut, to monitor the situation. Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte personally oversaw the transition on the Russian destroyer Admiral Panteleyev which was docked in Manila. This leaves just a handful of destroyers, destroyer escorts and small jeep carriers to defend the approach to the troops and landing zone. Four destroyer escorts were transferred to the Naval Reserve as training platforms. They met with the thirteen ships of Taffy 3, comprising six small escort carriers, three destroyers, and four destroyer escorts. When the destroyer escort was well clear, the River Afton received a signal ordering the convoy to scatter and proceed independently to the nearest Russian port. Navy from 1942 to 1945 aboard the USS Amick destroyer escort. Fleming her son's posthumous Medal of Honor, and the following September the Navy commissioned a destroyer escort named in the deceased pilot's honor. To all appearances she was a typical Mackenzie Class destroyer escort. Operation Fuller had failed, a destroyer had been severely damaged and 42 aircraft had been lost in 398 RAF fighter, 242 bomber and 35 Coastal Command sorties. John Rushworth Jellicoe, admiral of the Grand Fleet, was perpetually nervous about the possibility of submarine or destroyer attacks on Scapa Flow. Murphy's heroism came through during one brutal attack by the Germans when he ordered his men to retreat while he remained behind on a tank destroyer. Also featured will be a World War II B-24 Liberator bomber with four Buick-built engines, a World War II Hellcat tank destroyer built by Buick and a major fireworks display. On February 14, the destroyer, HMS Cossack was leading a flotilla of four other destroyers and the cruiser Arethusa on a sweep of Skagerrak looking for German iron-ore ships. Show More Sentences The admiral will be commissioning the new destroyer in a few minutes. Genevieve was tall and blonde, a destroyer of masculine peace of mind. The British lost Audacity, a destroyer and only two merchant ships. Of the sixty bombs dropped, a quarter failed to explode, including the bombs that hit the cruiser Trento, the destroyer Libeccio, and two fleet auxiliaries. His spirits revived, however, and by half past three, his wife Alice had been put on board the destroyer Escopette, which was to escort the flight. During World War II, an Italian destroyer was named Antonio da Noli. Examples from Classical Literature As she sped by, the destroyer dropped a depth charge almost directly on top of the object. She was a harmful woman, a destroyer of young tempers, a hardener of young hearts. I walked to the tide-beaten beach and watched the solan Goose in search of a retreat from the destroyer, man. A destroyer travelling at full speed on a calm sea, when heard on a hydrophone resembles the roar of a gigantic dynamo. That love, too, like a quicksand, too often proves a destroyer to the weak-minded. When the destroyer dropped her first bomb he wondered if the ship was torpedoed. No sooner were the boarding party again on the destroyer than Rawlins beckoned Mr. Pauling aside. But the modern spirit with its resolution to sweep away every unfact and mere form is no destroyer. To call the destroyer of superstition a negationist is as senseless as to call a doctor a negationist. Intelligence had not been so sure the destroyer commander knew all about Stan. But that is only a part of your punishment, destroyer of happiness and afflictor of many lives. The destroyer J saw the bow wave of one at a distance of 1,500 yards and headed for it at a rapid speed. He knew, too, that to commandeer a destroyer for a private errand was inadmissable. Kelly towed him to the landing stage of the ship Rick had seen, a destroyer escort. He reconnoitred the enemy's trenches, and, under the covering fire of a destroyer, lit his flares at intervals along the beach. Time, the destroyer and fulfiller of predictions, has proved that his Lordship was a false prophet. Rick and Scotty watched Jimmy Kelly check the diving equipment of the frogman teams lined up on the destroyer escort's deck. The fer-de-lance is a great destroyer of rats, this rodent forming its principal source of food. In books war is great, but in reality war is a destroyer, a ravisher of life. Ahead a torpedo boat destroyer of the United States Navy scurried briskly, often scooting off to one side of the course. Show More Sentences Love he regards as the creative power, the destroyer or modifier being Hate. He wished rather to pose as the destroyer of Muhammadanism and the liberator of the natives. Luther felt his mission to be that of a purifier, not a destroyer. As a result of the attack on Dunkirk one French destroyer was sunk. They were a disgustingly healthy lot, these destroyer crews. Besides, the tsetse fly, that destroyer of cattle, has appeared. The ibis cannot have been honored as the destroyer of the sacred serpent. In the harbour were some carabinieri, as well as our escorting destroyer. The U-boat man with nerve enough to attack a destroyer is a good one. It was the belief that the destroyer had sunk one of the u-boats. Again he discovered that the devastator was a microscopic destroyer. On came the destroyer until it was directly over the underseas craft. Farther south a destroyer was passing westwards to Sheerness. Can't have been ramming if he bagged two of them, and they surely never came to the surface voluntarily, with a destroyer about. And should he refuse to reform quickly, he will soon be known as a self-destroyer rather than a destroyer of batting line-ups. But it is not the danger of the noble man to turn a good man, but lest he should become a blusterer, a scoffer, or a destroyer. Closer and closer to the dread destroyer he came, until, with a sudden, angry growl, the lion rose from his bed not ten paces from the youth. Later we were fired upon by a destroyer, and two merchantmen turned and fled at our approach. Joachim Schepke was crushedS to deat h when U-100 was rammed by the destroyer HMS Vidette. I will procure a consultation of physicians, and see whether this wondrous inoculation may not stay the progress of the destroyer. Show More Sentences The tanker reported a damaged rudder and a destroyer went to her aid. A battleship should be at least twice as long as a torpedo-boat destroyer. She thus became the destroyer of mankind in her lioness avatar as Sekhet. On August 2, 1964, the destroyer USS Maddox suffered light damage during a skirmish with North Vietnamese patrol torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin. And many a one who hath come along as a destroyer, and as a hailstorm to all cornfields, wanted merely to put his foot into the jaws of the rabble, and thus stop their throat. The destroyer of forests shall shake his red crest against them. The Navy's 35th fleet, comprising Bandar Abbas logistic warship and Alvand destroyer, will conduct anti-piracy patrols in the high seas and Gulf of Aden. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of destroyer? Words that rhyme with destroyer What is the plural of destroyer? What is the adverb for destroyer? What is the adjective for destroyer? What is the noun for destroyer? Translations for destroyer Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words destroyed destroyable destroy destrier destressing destressed destroyers destroying destroys destruct destructed destructibility 9-letter Words Starting With d de des dest destr destro destroy destroye