How to Use U-boat in a Sentence

U-boat

noun
  • Then in issue #3, Namor was sinking German U-boats.
    — Literary Hub, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Smoke from the fighting still rose on the horizon, but Picard’s eyes scanned the gray water below for signs of German U-boats.
    — Kevin Maurer, The Atlantic, 6 June 2026
  • Or out on the ocean, sailing on a ship crossing the Atlantic, where German U-boats lay in wait, torpedoes at the ready?
    — Doug Most august 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
  • U-boat barriers and anti-aircraft batteries still dot the area around Scapa Flow, the former base of the British fleet.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Stalingrad, El Alamein, even the battle that cleared the U-boats from the North Atlantic, none of those were decisive.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 20 May 2026
  • Demand for honey and wax peaked again during WWII with a second round of U-boat attacks and strict rationing of paraffin wax.
    — Literary Hub, 27 May 2026
  • Moorhouse follows a similar approach in his enthralling and illuminating history of German U-boats in the battle for the Atlantic.
    — Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
  • Based on a story by John Steinbeck, this brisk survival drama takes place entirely in a claustrophobic vessel after an American ship and a German U-boat sink each other.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Because the attack came at the end of the war, and the U-boat had not received orders of any surrender, the sinking of the Eagle was reported as an engineering and boiler failure rather than an escalatory attack from a foreign adversary.
    — Leanna Renee Hieber, Big Think, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The British lost many hundreds of ships to German U-boat attacks in 1917 alone, and with an average of 13 ships being sunk daily in the spring, the question of how to better protect ships was an important one.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 May 2026
  • Six months later, in February, 1943, most of the men Jack sailed with that summer—including Glory and the pastry chef—were killed when the Dorchester was torpedoed by a German U-boat.
    — Joyce Johnson, New Yorker, 23 May 2026
  • One of the most disputed moments of North Carolina history centers on whether a Nazi U-boat attacked a chemical plant near Kure Beach during World War II.
    — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 9 Mar. 2026
  • On April 23, 1945, the USS Eagle 56 was fired upon and sunk by a German U-boat 853 in Casco Bay.
    — Leanna Renee Hieber, Big Think, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Against the backdrop of a minimal orchestral ensemble, just strings, brass and percussion, Doldinger used early synthesizers to create a sonic soundscape evoking sonar pulses, engine drones and the metallic ambience inside the World War 2 U-boat.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 18 Oct. 2025

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