How to Use starship in a Sentence

starship

noun
  • The name refers to the starship in the Star Wars movie series.
    — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2018
  • That would make this fleeing starship look like a naval battle on Earth.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 11 May 2018
  • The fame he’s achieved by playing a starship captain has come with other perks.
    — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Of course this speed will change based on the assumption of the distance between starships.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 11 May 2018
  • Her only job on the starship is to take orders and repeat them to the computer.
    — Wired, 20 Nov. 2019
  • In the third episode, a bunch of people finally get together on the bridge of a starship.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2020
  • What if a starship could compress space in front of it while expanding spacetime behind it?
    — Mario Borunda, The Conversation, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Near the start of the novel, John gets unfairly expelled from the starship.
    — Stephanie Burt, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Easy to use to play music from your phone, the speaker also makes familiar starship sound effects.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Amy herself was expected to ascend in a starship — or, perhaps, through a portal in the ocean.
    — Christopher Moyer, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2021
  • Sitting in the driver's seat is like being on the bridge of the starship Enterprise.
    — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 28 Nov. 2022
  • With the bombardment of buttons and switches, the cabin is more starship than flagship.
    — Mark Maynard, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Del Toro was shown in an image sitting in the swivel chair aboard an unspecified starship.
    — Anthony Breznican, PEOPLE.com, 15 July 2017
  • What are the diameter and depth of the saucer of the starship Enterprise model?
    — Katie Nodjimbadem, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • What are the diameter and depth of the saucer of the starship Enterprise model?
    — Katie Nodjimbadem, Smithsonian, 29 Sep. 2017
  • But those events are more than a decade gone in Picard, and life in the Burgundy countryside is a far cry from life aboard a starship.
    — Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2020
  • The story involves the theft of a cache of coaxium, which is both starship fuel and fuel for a revolution.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 16 May 2018
  • Instead, the orbiter was called Enterprise, like the TV show's starship.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 15 Sep. 2021
  • We were informed the McDonalds will try to tear down the Starship starting today.
    — Tom Uhler, star-telegram.com, 4 May 2017
  • The space had the distinct air of the bridge of the starship Enterprise, except with only a couple of staffers and Javie aboard.
    — New York Times, 20 May 2022
  • Even the suits based on school uniforms, like the one Nigo wore during his grade-school days in Japan, would not look out of place on the bridge of any starship.
    — Miles Socha, WWD, 3 Sep. 2024
  • First, there is the backwards-pushing force that's parallel to the ground—this is due to the forward acceleration of the starship.
    — Rhett Allain, Wired, 4 May 2021
  • Compared to my college roommate’s Grand Wagoneer, the new one is a galaxy-hopping starship.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Maybe the one starting to move into a $5 billion headquarters building that looks like a cross between a starship and a Bundt cake?
    — Kevin Maney, Newsweek, 30 May 2017
  • Then the ship seems to split in two, Stamets freaks out, and Discovery arrives in the middle of a starship debris field in unknown space.
    — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2017
  • There's some serious attention to detail here, from the huge engines through to the rotating turbolasers and the starship hangar.
    — Chris McMullen, Space.com, 2 Dec. 2025
  • The showrunners appear to have solved that problem, as the starship featured prominently in the two and a half minute trailer appears much sleeker and more advanced.
    — cleveland.com, 18 May 2017
  • When the starship makes the jump to hyperspace, R2 goes flying backwards inside the Falcon.
    — Rhett Allain, Wired, 4 May 2021
  • To Hein, launching Project Lyra would be akin to building humanity’s first starship — and doing it on the cheap.
    — NBC News, 17 Oct. 2019
  • There are Bluetooth speakers in the shape of starships, watches and phone call receivers in the shape of the crew’s communication devices.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2026

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