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    Use "submarine" in a sentence

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    submarine


    submarines


    1. German submarine – a U-boat, as they were called


    2. The air intakes to the motor were on the top of the deck behind him and trapped, so the motor kept running and the craft kept moving but more as a submarine at conning tower depth than a boat


    3. submarine - out there in the shed - the one I


    4. The commander of that craft successfully completed his task of rescuing the occupants of a submarine vessel


    5. “Ships tracking a submarine mainly relied on a


    6. “So a submarine would drift with one of these pockets or currents of water, hidden from the


    7. Suddenly he remembered, in the middle of his favourite computer game where he is killing a beautiful but evil woman about to destroy the nuclear submarine, that he hadn’t phoned his aunt Esther


    8. I dare say you will take their objectives easily for there is no African country able to resist entry for longer than a week during the invasion phase except the South Africans who have new German Type 209 submarines which are quiet enough to penetrate your submarine defences


    9. It is a highly unlikely scenario but theoretically possible and I know of quite a few submarine commanders who swore they took pictures of your carriers (fat juicy targets in their language) without being detected and one showed it to me when I challenged him


    10. At the same Nuremberg trials the German U Boat Commander Doenitz (and last Fuhrer) could not plea tu quoque for unrestricted submarine warfare whilst it was known that the U

    11. Melodramatically offering to fight to the end with his troops, MacArthur was ordered by Roosevelt to slip out of the Philippines by submarine


    12. They observe calving glaciers shedding big chunks of blue ice in spectacular, thunderous slides that tumble into the ocean producing huge splashes of water and join the submarine current from the ice fields where they are born


    13. These contracts were “cost plus” instead of “fixed price” because the amount of work needed could not be exactly estimated until the submarine had been thoroughly inspected


    14. I will never refer to a submarine


    15. one of this nation’s only two nuclear submarine shipyards, and it


    16. ” He advised the kaiser to initiate submarine warfare


    17. “His role in the war as ‘father of submarine warfare’ was in the end seen to have been disastrous


    18. Navy SEALS assisted the Coast Guard as did USN radiation specialists from the Groton (Connecticut) submarine base (“Navy SEALS Inspecting Radioactive Ship


    19. Navy assigned the Coast Guard to develop helicopter operations for Search and Rescue (SAR) and Anti- Submarine Warfare (ASW)


    20. A one-man submarine was nothing of the sort; on the contrary, it was a live torpedo with a seat on top and a plastic bubble over the driver

    21. Karl Dönitz, the submarine admiral was now our leader


    22. The lights of the phosphorous lamps in the City of the Sea Trolls wavered at the base of a wide, submarine valley


    23. Zack turned his surfboard into a submarine and went under water where he saw large sea snakes with golden crowns on their heads, large plants that flourished on the bottom and blinked in many different colors and then shot the colors into the air causing great fireworks


    24. This explosive charge is not connected to the charge in the submarine or in the diving-bells…that charge will be detonated when the Chinese make the final payment!’


    25. "Garnet Reed was born on Vancouver Island, served in the RCAF on west coast anti- submarine patrols during World War Two


    26. What happens? A bloody great submarine comes up


    27. He ordered Benny to pull alongside, then scrambled up and disappeared inside the submarine


    28. "Right now we're sure there's not a Soviet nuclear submarine within four-hundred kilometres of Canada


    29. "What about the bloody submarine?"


    30. "The Soviets don't move a nuclear submarine without us knowing about it

    31. "Submarine secrecy until the 'fifties, you said," responded the intelligence chief easily


    32. "It's a bloody submarine!" muttered Travis


    33. "There's no possible way that a submarine can get into the inlet


    34. Horricks in Ottawa, in fact the entire Cabinet, was suddenly concerned over indications a Soviet submarine was prowling close to Canada's coastline


    35. usual to see a Navy Frigate or submarine passing by the restaurant on its way to


    36. submarine with no lights


    37. As for us, I would compare us to the American submarine fleet in late December 1941


    38. A submarine would then 63


    39. “Which submarine is this? I didn’t know that there were women submariners in the Navy


    40. Actually, Lieutenant, you are not aboard a submarine

    41. REPULSE, torpedoed by a German submarine


    42. The submarine shuddered again as the four heavy torpedoes left their launch tubes


    43. He nearly jumped with joy when three torpedoes from another submarine hit the last troopship, breaking it in half


    44. ‘’Uh, Mister President, I did speak yesterday by submarine telephone cable with Major General Lewis Brereton, our air commander in the Philippines


    45. How busy is our submarine fleet, both attack and Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) submarines? Do we need as many FBMs as we have? Do we need a surface fleet? Why not get a commitment with the old Soviet block countries and China, India, Pakistan, Great Britain, France and North Korea to mutually phase out Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles(ICBMs), FBMs and their multiple missile and warhead threats and other nuclear warhead stockpiles? What are the options for defense of the homeland? What missions do the Air Forces air wings cover? For defense only, what components of our Air Force do we keep active? What is the cost of operating these wings, these airbases? What does a defense only Armed forces look like? Can we operate from home with refueling tanker bases in Hawaii and Great Britain and otherwise bring home all military, excepting our embassies abroad?


    46. The Exo, like the other men in the cramped control room of the submarine, looked wide-eyed at his captain


    47. The submarine shuddered as compressed air ejected the torpedoes in the four forward tubes


    48. With the machinery noise from the big Japanese warships reverberating inside the submarine as they dispersed in one big hurry, the captain was quite certain that there was no way that the escorting destroyers could hear him on their sonar


    49. The Japanese shellfire soon resumed, making him forget about the reckless submarine commander


    50. Ken screamed with joy when he understood that the submarine that had left the harbor had just torpedoed the cruiser














































    1. Pace the Fifth Dimension and the Beatles, neither balloons nor submarines should be painted yellow


    2. water, helping conceal the submarines from ships that might be tracking them from above


    3. I dare say you will take their objectives easily for there is no African country able to resist entry for longer than a week during the invasion phase except the South Africans who have new German Type 209 submarines which are quiet enough to penetrate your submarine defences


    4. They also have the expert knowledge to do so having operated submarines since the 1960's


    5. The threat from the ultra-silent Diesel-Electric boats is very real and they all know about your submarines which work with your carrier groups


    6. “In this harbor, there are several sunken German destroyers and submarines filled with hundreds of drowned German soldiers


    7. There is no trench fighting in the air, no tunnels, no submarines


    8. “Yep—it is, I think, inevitable that we will create God because we have conceived of Him, just like we conceived of submarines and all the rest


    9. The difference is that, while we can conceive of submarines, jet planes, and the like we still have to wait for the applied technologies to allow us to bring them about


    10. The reason is that the submarines, jet planes, etc

    11. He did, however, permit them to continue overhauling up to four Permit class attack submarines in Ingalls’s old, original East Bank yard


    12. not covered, I did pay two “claims” for damage to submarines being overhauled on the East Bank


    13. The Navy also used overhauls to update submarines with new technologies and components


    14. Other “nuclear shipyards,” both private and government owned performed similar overhauls on submarines of the same class, so the contractor was expected to “have his arms around the problems


    15. Fairly close together in time, Ingalls’ workers caused two radioactive spills on the decks of submarines undergoing overhaul


    16. class 688 attack submarines forced EB to essentially bid at cost with


    17. overhauling, nuclear submarines has stayed open to the present, e


    18. defective submarines had all already been launched, i


    19. The advent of nuclear submarines only began the replacement


    20. firing submarines, designated as SSGs

    21. We should manufacture submarines, without armaments, for


    22. recreational purposes! Submarines are fun, he pointed out


    23. In World War Two, Coast Guard crews manned 650 vessels for the Navy and Army, and sank 11 enemy submarines


    24. The Russians could not account for the appearance in the blast area, of one of their old out-dated submarines, which had gone missing about thirty years ago


    25. "Tell me about submarines


    26. The whole purpose of submarines is to travel undetected


    27. The Soviets have three nuclear submarines stationed just outside territorial waters on the west coast and another three 200 miles off the east coast," explained Toby


    28. Underwater microphones placed to detect Swordsman submarines should they have brought any picked up the fourteen hertz thumping that was the sharks’ distress call and the twenty hertz blast that was their call to battle


    29. ‘It was fortunate that the British nuclear deterrent was still based on submarines which remained out of reach of the new order, although one had to be destroyed by the US following a successful mutiny by the Islamic members of the crew


    30. By 1982 ‘B’, Great Britain was the biggest nuclear power in the world, with ballistic missiles based in the British Isles, Canada, Australia and India and with more missiles based on nuclear ships and submarines

    31. These include submarines, warships larger than destroyers, bomber aircraft, artillery weapons other than mortars and anti-tank guns, ground-to-ground missiles, tanks and self-propelled artillery guns


    32. Naturally if you allow submarines on the highway, there will be delays


    33. Besides, what are submarines doing on the freeway? Shouldn’t they be in the


    34. In view of the strategic importance of our B-17 bombers and of the submarines and ships of the Asiatic Fleet, we should thus concentrate our defenses around our airfields and the Navy base at Cavite


    35. Now, we do have a few important cards in our hands, starting with our 29 submarines


    36. However, the fantastically detailed intelligence that the Asiatic Fleet possessed had allowed to preposition for an ambush no less than six submarines


    37. A pack of eight American submarines ambushed a large Japanese combat flotilla as it barely started its way towards Legaspi, on the southern tip of Luzon


    38. The triumphant pack of American submarines, now nearly out of torpedoes, then retired in good order towards the Philippines to rearm and then take watch positions


    39. The fourth pack, counting six submarines and posted off the port of Naha, on Okinawa Island, to the Northeast of the Philippines, didn’t see action that day as they waited for the Japanese convoy due to leave harbor the next day


    40. The titanic explosion and fireball that ensued was clearly seen by the waiting American submarines off Okinawa, which then passed that information by radio to the headquarters of the Asiatic Fleet in Manila

    41. ‘’Admiral, I intend to give presidential unit citations to this squadron of B-17 bombers and to the submarines of the Asiatic Fleet


    42. Their submarines and heavy bombers in particular must be considered as important factors in any new plan


    43. Admiral Nagumo will however have to be very careful not to expose his carriers to the American submarines


    44. How busy is our submarine fleet, both attack and Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) submarines? Do we need as many FBMs as we have? Do we need a surface fleet? Why not get a commitment with the old Soviet block countries and China, India, Pakistan, Great Britain, France and North Korea to mutually phase out Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles(ICBMs), FBMs and their multiple missile and warhead threats and other nuclear warhead stockpiles? What are the options for defense of the homeland? What missions do the Air Forces air wings cover? For defense only, what components of our Air Force do we keep active? What is the cost of operating these wings, these airbases? What does a defense only Armed forces look like? Can we operate from home with refueling tanker bases in Hawaii and Great Britain and otherwise bring home all military, excepting our embassies abroad?


    45. With the Sun now up, American bombers could now take off and attack his fleet, while the American submarines were also a major worry


    46. Worse, his battle squadron had been ambushed by three American submarines during its withdrawal, losing the heavy cruisers ATAGO and MAYA, which had absorbed a total of eleven torpedoes


    47. The same could be said about the stocks of torpedoes for the submarines of the Asiatic Fleet, which are a curse upon our fleet


    48. ‘’And what would be the chances of success for the invasion of these territories if the Americans are permitted to keep control of the Philippines, Colonel? Do you want to have to explain to His Majesty the Emperor why the Americans still can bomb Japanese home territory with their B-17s? The American submarines in Cavite and their heavy bombers in Clark Field are too much of a long range threat to our forces and to Japan itself


    49. Another victory, in a sense, was the fact that the air bridge with Darwin was still operating, with 32 heavy transports having landed just before Sunset, loaded with over 120 tons of munitions and vital spare parts, including 36 precious torpedoes for his submarines, which had done such a stellar job today


    50. ‘’Gentlemen, I want the torpedoes received tonight to be loaded as quickly as possible on our submarine tenders and in our submarines presently in Cavite








































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    Synonyms for "submarine"

    pigboat sub submarine u-boat bomber cuban sandwich grinder hero hero sandwich hoagie hoagy italian sandwich poor boy submarine sandwich torpedo wedge zep undersea

    "submarine" definitions

    a submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes


    a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States


    move forward or under in a sliding motion


    throw with an underhand motion


    bring down with a blow to the legs


    control a submarine


    attack by submarine


    beneath the surface of the sea