How to Use minesweeper in a Sentence

minesweeper

noun
  • The minesweepers were made of steel, but the Satellite’s hull was wooden.
    — Lauren McCarthy, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
  • The minesweepers are made of steel while the Satellite was a wooden hulled vessel.
    — Stephen Smith, CBS News, 13 July 2023
  • After minesweepers do their work, destroyers would be sent in to escort oil tankers.
    — Tom Bowman, NPR, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The Navy has fewer than a dozen minesweepers, many in disrepair.
    — T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Those vessels, which were minesweepers, saw a much grimmer fate than the Satellite.
    — Lauren McCarthy, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
  • Belgium and the Netherlands will soon need to retire more than a dozen of their frigates and minesweepers.
    — Elisabeth Braw, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2017
  • In an ideal world the Avenger-class minesweepers would have been decommissioned years ago.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Aug. 2019
  • The Navy is now dependent on an aging fleet of minesweepers that often cannot deploy.
    — Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica, 23 Nov. 2015
  • Ideally, said Schuster, one or two minesweepers would move through the strait ahead of the tankers to ensure a clear path.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The Navy built its first modern minesweeper during the 1940s.
    — Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Before minesweepers head in, says Foggo, there will need to be a combat air patrol in place above the Strait.
    — Tom Bowman, NPR, 1 Apr. 2026
  • If the station still isn’t found, the nearby navy base has offered to help with its minesweepers and other scanning technologies.
    — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Crews successfully pulled the first ship, a minesweeper, from the river last month, per AFP.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Sep. 2024
  • There are more than hints of this already, the UK and Germany ready to deploy minesweepers to the Strait.
    — Scott Montgomery, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Iran deployed human-wave attacks and recruited child soldiers as human minesweepers.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The minesweeper has gone from combatting sea mines to detecting damage to undersea cables.
    — Sarah Dean, CNN, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Boyd served in the Royal Navy and was aboard a minesweeper during the Normandy invasion.
    — Washington Post, latimes.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • The Emiratis are arranging minesweepers, cranes and other equipment to repair the port after its capture.
    — Asa Fitch, WSJ, 8 July 2018
  • China's Defense Ministry said its armed forces had dispatched two frigates, a minesweeper and two fighter jets to warn the Stethem away.
    — chicagotribune.com, 3 July 2017
  • China’s Defense Ministry said its armed forces had dispatched two frigates, a minesweeper and two fighter jets to warn the Stethem away.
    — Simon Denyer, Washington Post, 3 July 2017
  • Four dedicated minesweepers stationed there were decommissioned last year.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 22 Mar. 2026
  • His father was a carpenter helping build minesweepers at Terminal Island for the Navy.
    — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2026
  • This technology could prove useful in the Strait of Hormuz if Iran were to use electronic warfare against minesweepers.
    — Aidan Stretch, CBS News, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The ship would function as a local, seagoing base for a wide variety of forces, including special forces, small Cyclone-class coastal patrol boats, and even minesweepers.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 18 Jan. 2018
  • Kubb was an Army veteran who served as a radio operator on a minesweeper during the Korean War.
    — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Aside from screening for car bombs and acting as a mobile barricade with a top speed of just over 6 mph, his machine’s 12-foot-wide blade will also act as a de-facto minesweeper.
    — Mustafa Salim, Washington Post, 29 May 2017
  • Renamed Magic Circle, Guthrie’s schooner became a lowly minesweeper along the Scottish coast.
    — Tristan Rutherford, Robb Report, 3 Jan. 2025
  • The leader said Germany is willing to deploy minesweepers to aid the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, but only when the fighting stops.
    — Mallory Wilson, The Hill, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The navy also fields six Osa II missile boats, Pauk-class corvettes, minesweepers and numerous smaller patrol and support craft.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 28 May 2026
  • These Avenger-class minesweepers had wooden hulls covered in fiberglass that helped prevent Iranian magnetic mines attaching to their hulls.
    — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 12 Mar. 2026

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