How to Use dreadnought in a Sentence
dreadnought
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This time, it’s filled not with gunfire and dreadnoughts, but with some of the world’s most advanced submarines under one flag.
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Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Nov. 2025
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Colossus marked the transition point between early dreadnoughts and the larger, more heavily armed battleships that followed.
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Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Oct. 2025
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Battleships and dreadnoughts redefined what combat at sea meant, but were quickly surpassed in importance by aircraft carriers.
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Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Oct. 2025
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In 1912, the nation had barely enough shipyards to handle the construction of its own dreadnoughts, let alone a behemoth like the Zipang.
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Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
7 May 2026
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Before the dominance of aircraft carriers, dreadnoughts (later battleships) were the centerpiece of any serious navy.
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Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
7 May 2026
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Drop in the fact that Japan’s navy had learned some very hard lessons from the Russo-Japanese War on the potency of dreadnoughts, and things start to fall into place (at least conceptually).
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Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
7 May 2026
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