warship

IPA: wˈɔrʃɪp

Any ship built or armed for naval combat.
(Britain, rail transport) A British Rail Class 41 locomotive, dating from the late 1950s.

Examples of "warship" in Sentences

The warship was a ghost from a bloody past, a death-specter, a haunt.
A U.S. warship is patrolling waters near Somalia to find a Japanese ship that was hijacked by pirates.
Nelson's Victory, the world's oldest commissioned warship, is indeed in Portsmouth, but it is not, as Hitchens says, "moored as a floating museum."
June 8th, 2009 BRUSSELS - NATO is to launch a new, long-term warship fleet dedicated to fighting piracy off Somalia, a senior US diplomat said Monday.
With the arrival of the Age of Enlightenment, the warship was a product with a difference, and the technology used was later incorporated into merchant navy vessels.
U.N. representatives joined actors Edward James Olmos, who played the commander of the show's title warship, and Mary McDonnell, who starred as President Laura Roslin, his civilian superior.
Pirates are all over these waters and the warship will be a deterrent to any more pirates coming onboard and most importantly perhaps basic communications between the crews still onboard the Maersk Alabama and the U.S. Navy.
In the past, ships could be held in reserve unmanned to be ready in emergency and further ships could be adapted from merchant vessels; today, the warship is too specialized for it to be effective from merchant ship conversion.