How to Use submarine in a Sentence

submarine

1 of 2 adjective
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  • Anti-submarine warfare is a cat-and-mouse game, and sometimes the cat needs to make some noise to find the mouse.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Meanwhile, half of the 31 LCSs the fleet plans to keep could get anti-submarine gear.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 16 June 2021
  • In wartime, the subs would hide under the ice from NATO anti-submarine forces.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2021
  • In the bottom of the 10th, submarine-style Tyler Rogers earned the save by retiring all three of his batters to strand George Springer, who opened the inning on second.
    — John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 11 Aug. 2020
  • This could mean a shift to more submarine-style explosive eruptions.
    — Shane Cronin, CNN, 17 Jan. 2022
  • The perfection of the bathythermograph as an anti-submarine warfare tool had been a high priority at WHOI for years before the war.
    — Catherine Musemeche, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2022
  • China plans to use the South China Sea as a stronghold, where its air and naval forces could protect the submarines by keeping enemy anti-submarine forces at bay.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The most recent flights stood out because of the number and types of planes involved, including bombers and anti-submarine planes on nighttime intrusions.
    — New York Times, 3 Oct. 2021
  • Anderson is a submarine-style hurler, nearly grazing the mound on each delivery and just barely hitting 80 mph on his heater.
    — Mitchell Gladstone, Arkansas Online, 30 May 2021
  • If that is the case here, then why waste an opportunity to build confidence in the quality of U.S. submarines and the submarine industrial base that builds them?
    — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Chu medium-range surface-to-air missiles, and Type 07 anti-submarine missiles; all of which possess ranges exceeding 30 miles.
    — Sebastien Roblin, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
  • But those mission modules were beset by problems, and the anti-submarine capability was canceled in the new budget.
    — David Sharp, ajc, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Mk 54 can be fired from surface ships and airborne anti-submarine platforms like the P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft.
    — Craig Hooper, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
  • China had another drill in areas south of Taiwan in mid-August, with combat ships, anti-submarine aircraft and fighter jets among the forces that joined the exercises.
    — Bloomberg.com, 18 Sep. 2021
  • China has invested heavily in its navy, outnumbering the U.S. in ships, and has made advances in anti-submarine warfare.
    — Charles Hutzler, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The team determined that the explosive was an anti-submarine mortar bomb and believe it was used in the area when a nearby weapons research facility was operating.
    — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2020
  • Whales have washed up on the Peloponnesian coast with ears bleeding from decompression injuries caused by anti-submarine-warfare training.
    — Amia Srinivasan, The New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2020
  • The submarine industrial base is still recovering after losing thousands of suppliers since the end of the Cold War, the industrial base council said.
    — Stephen Singer, Hartford Courant, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Each ship has a limited number of silos capable of carrying a mix of anti-air, anti-ship, land-attack, and anti-submarine missiles.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 Apr. 2021
  • Tuo Chiang packs tube launchers for anti-submarine torpedoes but lacks heavy air-defenses.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Together, the five ships have a total of 610 vertical launch silos capable of launching anti-air, anti-submarine, land attack, and anti-ship missiles—with not even a rough idea of when they might be replaced.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The ships were supposed to be made versatile through plug-and-play mission modules for surface combat, mine-sweeping operations or anti-submarine warfare.
    — David Sharp, ajc, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The Navy optimized the Virginias for land-attack missions with Tomahawk cruise missiles, at the expense of their anti-submarine capabilities.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 29 June 2021
  • The entire Shatsky Rise is also covered in those telltale magnetic stripes, which implies that oceanic plateaus themselves are not submarine versions of continental flood basalts, and they aren’t driven by mantle plumes.
    — Robin George Andrews, National Geographic, 15 July 2019
  • Boldly striking at the enemy in spite of continuous hostile air and anti-submarine patrols, Cmdr.
    — Drew Broach | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 7 Dec. 2020
  • The extra spending will also let Japan more quickly acquire anti-submarine missiles, maritime patrol planes and military cargo jets, the Defense Ministry said.
    — Reuters, CNN, 28 Nov. 2021
  • The planes flown Monday included 18 fighter jets, four bombers, two anti-submarine planes and a surveillance aircraft, according to Taiwanese officials.
    — NBC News, 13 Apr. 2021
  • The result is an air wing of approximately 80 crewed and uncrewed aircraft that can single-handedly prosecute an air war, from air-to-air combat to fleet defense, surface strike against ships and land targets, and even anti-submarine warfare.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 Mar. 2022
  • That implies if deployed operationally, the Indian Navy might need to assign escorts to provide anti-air and anti-submarine defense.
    — Sebastien Roblin, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The white rectangle outline on top of the fuselage is probably a modular, removable payload bay that could carry a number of equipment types, such as a jammer, anti-submarine payload, or any number of useful cargoes.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2021
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submarine

2 of 2 noun
  • In one hand, the earth product, and the other the submarine wine.
    — Popular Mechanics, 8 Feb. 2023
  • For decades, the U.S. hasn’t had to worry much about China’s submarines.
    — Alastair Gale, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The hangars housed 12 blimps that were used for submarine patrol.
    — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The buoys are used to detect submarines and other objects in the water.
    — Lolita C. Baldor, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The monster is sighted and proves to be a giant submarine.
    — Jack Moffitt, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The first group meeting and the submarine’s arrival both took place Tuesday.
    — Stella Kim, NBC News, 19 July 2023
  • There is broad agreement in Washington that the U.S. Navy needs many more warships and submarines.
    — Robert M. Gates, Foreign Affairs, 29 Sep. 2023
  • After Avatar wrapped, Cameron built a submarine that could ferry him to the deepest place in the sea, the bottom of the Mariana Trench, in 2012.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The Gulf state alleged the men were spying on its submarine program for Israel, one of the people said.
    — Rajesh Roy, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Taiwan’s red flag, featuring a white sun against a blue sky, was wrapped around the submarine’s bow.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 28 Sep. 2023
  • She's sent on a mission to HMS Vigil, a submarine where someone has died on board.
    — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 1 Jan. 2023
  • The submarine Antipodes was introduced the next year and made 130 dives within two years.
    — oregonlive, 6 July 2023
  • In the opening sequence of the film, the Entity hijacks and sinks a submarine, killing its entire crew.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Tasting the two wines, blind, the submarine is more expressive and lively.
    — Alice Lascelles, WIRED, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Thousands of feet below the surface of the South China Sea, scientists aboard a submarine stared at the seafloor.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Last May, the country test-launched a short-range ballistic missile from the same submarine.
    — Hyung-Jin Kim, USA TODAY, 13 Mar. 2023
  • This is the kind of advantage that can make a huge difference to submarines, ships yachts, torpedoes and so on.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2024
  • If all the tests are successful, the submarine will be given to the island's military.
    — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The submarine carried 10 torpedoes in the forward section and had two periscopes.
    — Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 9 Nov. 2023
  • These submarines are powerful chess pieces on this tense global stage.
    — Longreads, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The Trusdales were among three couples who made plans to ride Monday morning in a small, yellow submarine.
    — Tim Hrenchir, USA TODAY, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Maconachy was taken aback to learn that his uncle’s submarine had been found after so many years.
    — Mark J. Price, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2023
  • Moving on:Can U.S. and France move past tensions triggered by submarine deal?
    — Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2022
  • There’s no submarine in the water, just a mini battle for a pool torpedo.
    — Anthony Gharib, USA TODAY, 22 July 2023
  • Even great whites have been observed with the tell-tale round wounds of a cookie cutter bite, and the pugnacious hunters have been known to disable nuclear submarines.
    — Steven Hill, Field & Stream, 26 July 2023
  • The ridges are submarine fractures through which magma emanates.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The site is atop a submarine mountain known as Atlantis Massif, where the slow shifts of tectonic plates have shoved blocks of mantle rocks closer to the surface.
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
  • In contrast, the main American submarine missile, the Trident II, carries up to eight.
    — William J. Broad, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The industry of killing was having tanks, airplanes, submarines, machine guns.
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 9 Feb. 2024
  • A bit taller than Mount Rainier, this submarine mountain is largely made of peridotite, a type of rock that dominates the upper mantle.
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024

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