How to Use container ship in a Sentence

container ship

noun
  • Gantry cranes above a container ship.
    — Annie Nova,greg Iacurci, CNBC, 7 Aug. 2025
  • What else has started off on a container ship and wound up in the ocean?
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
  • And weighs on the franchise like an anchor on a container ship.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 22 Sep. 2017
  • At least one container ship has been hit in the region since the war began.
    — Shannon Pettypiece, NBC news, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The container ship and its crew should have been subject to more restraints.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The quest started late because a container ship came through.
    — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2024
  • Much of Alaska's food comes up by container ship over the water.
    — Annie Zak, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2018
  • Among the last, Rockman paints a container ship and a Cuban refugee raft.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Unlike dogs, rats can wriggle through the cracks and crevasses of a container ship.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The state imports nearly all of its food, mostly on container ships.
    — Devin Kelly, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Feb. 2018
  • And a container ship stuck in the Chesapeake Bay for more than a month has been freed.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Last year, as land borders were closed to nonessential goods, the tree traveled by container ship.
    — Emily D'alessandro, CBS News, 25 Dec. 2021
  • Last year, Cosco’s first electric container ship set sail from Yangzhou port.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 June 2024
  • By the way, what’s the air quality - container ship thing about anyhow?
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
  • The container ship that had an extended stay in the Suez Canal is now free.
    — Mike Brest, Washington Examiner, 29 Mar. 2021
  • In most cases, the arrival of a container ship in a port isn’t the result of short-term planning.
    — al, 20 Jan. 2023
  • There are stories of the sailboat that collided with a container ship unseen in the fog.
    — John Branch, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Stuck since Tuesday, the container ship has become a parable of the risks of megaships.
    — David Clark Scott, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Seven people died when the Fitzgerald struck a container ship back in June.
    — Kayla Turnbow, Houston Chronicle, 5 May 2018
  • At the time of its construction the Emma Maersk was the largest container ship in the world.
    — Katherine Ott, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 June 2023
  • Remember that giant container ship that got jammed in the Suez Canal in March?
    — Jon Dwoskin, Forbes, 25 May 2021
  • Then the 985-foot container ship Dali slammed into one of the bridge’s support pillars.
    — Hau Chu, Washington Post, 11 July 2024
  • As for drugs, the Coast Guard says 95 percent of them arrive in container ships or other boats.
    — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • There is a sly reference to the name of the container ship in the form of the face of mustachioed artist Salvador Dali.
    — Amy Davis, Baltimore Sun, 13 May 2024
  • When inventory is floating on a container ship for four or five months, a brand’s capital is completely locked up at sea.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 30 June 2026
  • Not the one Tuesday that grounded a massive container ship in front of this tiny hamlet on the edge of the Suez Canal.
    — Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2021
  • The container ship blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week in March before being dislodged from the banks of the canal.
    — Benoit Faucon, WSJ, 23 June 2021
  • Thirty percent of the world’s container ship traffic is reported to pass through its waters en route to or from the Suez Canal.
    — Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • But on Thursday, Iranian forces attacked a container ship with drones, hours after warning ships to no longer take that route.
    — Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Zhang agreed and arranged to send the shipment from Qingdao via container ship, at a price of $3,000 per kilogram.
    — Alex W. Palmer, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2019

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