How to Use depth charge in a Sentence

depth charge

noun
  • Louisville football's depth chart looked as if it had been hit by a depth charge.
    — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 1 Nov. 2020
  • The sub was pinned in close to shore as destroyers and other ships dropped depth charges.
    — Peter Eisner, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017
  • The fifth depth charge attack hit Harder, sinking her and her crew.
    — Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 24 May 2024
  • That's where destroyers newly equipped with depth charges will come in, the company said.
    — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 18 Sep. 2018
  • Greiner's destroyer picked up survivors of the sinking ship and dropped depth charges.
    — Brian Albrecht, cleveland.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Once in the air, the rocket would deploy a depth charge at a range of up to 34 miles (55 km).
    — David Szondy, New Atlas, 12 July 2024
  • This is a juicy, fruity light red fruit matrix with a depth charge of lime and acidity melded with cocoa on the finish.
    — Tom Mullen, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Bolts blasted out of their sockets and the solid metal hull dented inward, as if a depth charge had gone off nearby.
    — WIRED, 15 June 2023
  • The Bullhead was likely the victim of depth charges dropped by a Japanese plane.
    — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The destroyer dropped several depth charges over the side (the depth-charge launcher had yet to be invented).
    — Joshua Levine, Smithsonian, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Each side took turns maneuvering, escort ships dropping depth charges and U-boats dodging under the surface.
    — Dallas News, 4 Feb. 2020
  • The ship evaded the attack, then began firing depth charges at the USS Harder.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 May 2024
  • The show’s inescapable power comes from the emotionalism of great music, and in the current production every bit of its depth charge sounds.
    — Corby Kummer, The Atlantic, 8 July 2018
  • But Strong is content to walk us through the paces of Salinger’s troubled ascendancy without igniting any depth charges.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Sep. 2017
  • Spears’ June 23 statement was the depth charge that started the irreversible sinking of the conservatorship.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 12 Nov. 2021
  • This retrospective sent a collective shivering depth charge through viewers’ psyches and showed that Neel was the painter par excellence of modern life.
    — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2021
  • Rather than splay out from the convoy at speed, dropping depth charges at random, as was current common practice, Laidlaw and Okell lined the escort ships up around the convoy.
    — Simon Parkin, Time, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Clavin’s writing draws the reader into the tension and drama of life on the Tang, where the crew was always looking out for both potential targets and enemy depth charges.
    — Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
  • The Poseidon can track ships and submarines across vast areas of ocean, deploying missiles, depth charges and torpedoes from a rotary launcher to sink them if necessary.
    — Rob Taylor, WSJ, 9 July 2018
  • The Poseidon has a bomb bay for carrying anti-submarine torpedoes and depth charges, and can carry Harpoon anti-ship missiles on its wings.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2018
  • Allied weapons and sensors improved steadily, and the surface ships could use depth charges, explosive mortar rounds and even surface guns against the U-boats once the vital element of surprise was lost.
    — James G. Stavridis, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Still left to remove are the Evolved Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missiles, anti-submarine depth charges, and 76-millimeter cannon shells.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 Dec. 2018
  • Among the munitions documented were Hedgehog and Mark 9 depth charges — explosives that were typically dropped from warships to attack submarines.
    — Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
  • For instance, Russia fields a substantial number of naval nuclear weapons, including antiship cruise missiles, nuclear torpedoes, and nuclear depth charges.
    — Elbridge Colby, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2018
  • Faster is vital, because in their watery graves, the many land and naval mines, U-boat torpedoes, depth charges, artillery shells, chemical weapons, aerial bombs, and incendiary devices have corroded over almost 80 years.
    — Paul Hockenos, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Rookie running back Ollie Gordon II will get a chance after moving the depth charge following the season-ending neck injury to Alexander Mattison.
    — Jack Magruder, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • In this survey, the Scripps researchers identified munition boxes, Hedgehog and Mark 9 depth charges and Mark 1 smoke floats, chemical smoke munitions used to conceal a ship’s movement or mark locations.
    — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2024

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