How to Use spaceship in a Sentence

spaceship

noun
  • Stone floors and one of those wood stoves that looks like a spaceship.
    — Curbed Staff, Curbed, 17 Nov. 2023
  • This time, though, the spaceship crew is much younger than we're used to.
    — Ew Staff, EW.com, 7 June 2024
  • And so, those alien heads, and the spaceship are on the cuffs and on the back.
    — Clarissa Cruz, EW.com, 25 July 2022
  • There’s nothing to walk on, and no place to land a spaceship.
    — Benjamin Roulston, Discover Magazine, 7 Nov. 2024
  • This world will be changed when a spaceship crash-lands from a doomed planet.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 12 Aug. 2021
  • There, they will be grabbed by a spaceship that brings them back to Earth.
    — Lee Roop | [email protected], al, 22 July 2021
  • The task of building so many spaceships in a year is a tall order.
    — Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The spaceship would crash back down to Earth and more chaos would ensue.
    — Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Read on to find out which films are classics, and which ones should have gone down with the spaceship.
    — Janey Tracey, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2022
  • But so far, no actual aliens or spaceships!
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 16 Dec. 2025
  • What’s in the works is a high-end bar as if travelers were on a yacht-class spaceship.
    — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Aug. 2021
  • The patent covers trucks, buses, ships, planes, drones and even spaceships.
    — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 30 May 2018
  • Ryan Miller has been a pirate and a spaceship captain.
    — Eve Chen, USA Today, 7 Dec. 2025
  • Someone floating in space sees a spaceship going by to the right.
    — Adrian Bardon, The Conversation, 12 Nov. 2025
  • On this sunny March day, the spaceship is hitting warp speed.
    — Michael Del Castillo, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
  • With the valve wide open this system made a noise like a hovering spaceship.
    — Will MacKin, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
  • Vogel tells the kids they were born in space and are waiting for the spaceships to come back to pick them up.
    — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 22 July 2019
  • Science fiction has always been more than just tales of aliens and spaceship.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 1 Jan. 2026
  • How do the protagonists make it off the boat, plane, or spaceship alive?
    — Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 July 2022
  • Suspended over the field like a spaceship is an enormous video screen in the shape of a ring.
    — Brandon Griggs, CNN, 11 Feb. 2022
  • All the movies are really about people trapped in a spaceship, a prison, et cetera.
    — EW.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The spaceship that launched earlier is still out there in the end, searching for a new home.
    — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Mar. 2022
  • In Spaceballs, a spaceship could go so fast that the streaks of lights became plaid.
    — Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Gamers have long bought and sold digital items like swords, jewels, and spaceship parts.
    — Ben Weiss, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2026
  • But for someone aboard the spaceship, how is that possible?
    — Big Think, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Fans saw her boarding a spaceship and waving goodbye.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Oct. 2025
  • The lone survivor on a spaceship must figure out how to save the earth from destruction.
    — Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The final shot said the spaceship is headed on a crash course toward Earth.
    — Ars Technica, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Mars spaceships will be ready for short flights by the first half of next year, predicts Elon Musk.
    — Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2018
  • As is tradition, the crew of a spaceship's first voyage gets the right to name the vessel.
    — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 21 May 2025

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