How to Use steamship in a Sentence

steamship

noun
  • The boilers and the surrounding walls are the bulk of what remains of the steamship.
    — Mark Price, charlotteobserver, 19 Jan. 2018
  • The turkeys are slipped into massive ovens in the morning, along with the steamship beef.
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Within a decade, the clippers had been largely eclipsed by steamships in global trade.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Infected rats likely brought the disease from steamships to the shore.
    — Sarah Holzmann, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The steamship rounds are laid out to carve alongside hazelnut-brown roasted turkeys.
    — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Guests once arrived by steamship and paid $10 a week for an all-inclusive stay.
    — Jen Murphy, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Oct. 2023
  • As the ship’s pilot, Smalls took charge and ordered the crew to light the fires that fueled the steamship.
    — Big Think, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The survivors yelled for help when a steamship passed them during the night, but without flares to signal they were not seen.
    — Latoya Gayle, People.com, 15 Mar. 2025
  • Rather than letting the son die, Henson loaded him on a steamship and returned north.
    — Jared Brock, Smithsonian, 16 May 2018
  • The corpse bobbed in the water as the steamship passed the western shore of Fire Island.
    — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The steamship was bound for Nome, loaded with a fresh batch of fortune seekers, mail and cargo.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Dec. 2022
  • The train to Seward and steamship to Seattle appeared only once a week.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2021
  • High winds blew two railroad baggage cars off the deck of a steamship and into the Gulf of Alaska.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Dec. 2022
  • Samuel Clemens lost a 19-month-old son to diptheria and a brother in a steamship explosion.
    — courant.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Both steamships were decommissioned in 1991, two years before the park closed.
    — Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press, 15 Aug. 2024
  • So Gabriela and her companion set off on a steamship headed to Altamira.
    — Mia Sosa, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The show fits right into the Disney era, which helped wrench the wheel of the musical steamship toward the teen market.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2023
  • The first steamship with a screw propeller, the Archimedes, had been built in Britain in 1839.
    — David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
  • The Mississippi gave birth to these towns in steamship days, and its flooding over the years strangled many of their futures.
    — Paul Meincke, chicagotribune.com, 10 Aug. 2017
  • The McCulloch’s crew was safely rescued and taken aboard the steamship.
    — Washington Post, 13 June 2017
  • It was purchased before the trip to Africa by Meaher, who owned steamships, a sawmill and land in Mobile.
    — Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Their four-day journey began in Macon in 1848 and involved three legs each by train and steamship.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 27 Feb. 2021
  • In the mid-nineteenth century, the drivers were the steamship, the undersea cable, and the railroad.
    — Harold James, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The steamship, believed to be the Pulaski, has been called the Titanic of the South.
    — Monitor Reviewers, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Mar. 2021
  • There was no direct overland route, so cross-country mail got routed via steamship around South America.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Apr. 2026
  • The scandal crossed the Atlantic faster than any steamship, and Spiritualists around the world reeled.
    — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 24 May 2021
  • After decades hauling lumber, the ship was rendered obsolete by steamships in the 1920s.
    — Culture Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The ship, built in Germany by the North German Lloyd line, was once the third-largest passenger steamship in the world.
    — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 24 Apr. 2021
  • The sub has little trouble blowing the steamship out of the water, but that leaves 26 Belgian soldiers stranded in a pair of lifeboats.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The steamship was capable of carrying over 1,100 passengers and crew.
    — Raul A. Reyes, NBC news, 5 Nov. 2025

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