How To Use Dreadnought In A Sentence
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Above: South Shore terminus with four Dreadnoughts in line abreast, demonstrating their legendary capacity to absorb crowds.
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John Fisher was astute enough to support most technical developments - such as submarines and the dreadnoughts - and his impact on naval policy on World War One cannot be disputed.
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Admiral Carden was given the new superdreadnought Queen Elizabeth with eight 15-inch guns, the battle cruiser Inflexible with eight 12-inch guns, and twelve British and four French predreadnought battleships carrying a total of fifty-six 12-inch and eight 10-inch guns.
Castles of Steel
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As far as styling goes Lakewood are obviously borrowing heavily from the Martin heritage, since in outline these are millimetre-perfect dreadnought copies.
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The ex-Darlington dreadnought returned against Forest Green Rovers but did not train for much of last week after aggravating the injury.
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There is the 1: 250 scale Lightship Ambrose, HMS Dreadnought, Admirable class minesweeper-subchaser and the old V108 Torpedo boat.
Digital Navy | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models
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Even in an age of outsize literary biographies, Irvin Ehrenpreis's life of Jonathan Swift counts as a superdreadnought.
Animated Paradox
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Nevertheless, for the moment, Fisher had won: the superdreadnought sailed for Malta and home and all thought of another naval offensive at the Dardanelles was suspended.
Castles of Steel
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(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), p. 277 (“technological revolution”); Marder, Dreadnought to Scapa Flow, vol. 1, pp. 71, vii, 139 (“pensions”); Williamson, Politics of Grand Strategy, pp.
The Prize
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With the databases obtained from the alien refugees, they incoming ships were identified as Dreadnoughts, which are obsolescent capital cruisers.
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In the months between-country springs and summers-they played with real Spam tins-tanks, tank-destroyers, pillboxes, dreadnoughts deploying meat-pink, yellow and blue about the dusty floors of lumber-rooms or butteries, under the cots or couches of their exile.
Gravity's Rainbow
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But that's exactly what happened when the two eternal dreadnoughts of Scottish football last met, on April 29.
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The first was a strong, tall, powerful man, in a grey riding-coat, having a hat covered with waxcloth, a huge silver-mounted horsewhip, boots, and dreadnought overalls.
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Hiatt's eponymous Gibson dreadnought buzzed and untuned itself throughout the two-hour performance, which added a rock-and-roll edge to the unplugged affair.
In concert: Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt at the Birchmere
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Murray, long a comedic dreadnought, has in recent years come into his prime as a dramatic actor.
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Firkin's new coat hung on him like a dreadnought, the sleeves coming over the nebs of his fingers, and the hainch buttons hanging down between his heels, making him resemble a mouse below a firlot.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
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They proved to be the three Kentucky hunters, of the true "dreadnought" stamp.
Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains
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The pirate - a first-class superdreadnought-flashed up and a visual beam drove in.
Masters Of The Vortex
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There are of course more potent ships to command, specifically destroyers, cruisers and dreadnoughts.
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As far as styling goes Lakewood are obviously borrowing heavily from the Martin heritage, since in outline these are millimetre-perfect dreadnought copies.
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And in his who's who entry, he lists as one of his interests, the British admiral, the Naval admiral, Jackie Fisher, and he was an admiral in the 1900s and he was the first one to commission this giant warship called the dreadnought, a massive, great big battleship.
CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2006
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Since the 1950s, Mr. Adiga writes, Vishram has stood as a "dreadnought of middle-class respectability" amid the slums and swamplands of northern Mumbai.
Quixotic Obstinance, Quicksilver Memory
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The senior surgeon at the Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital had a series of incomparable radiographs of bladder and renal chyluria.
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It appears that the director made use of actual WW2 era (American?) destroyers and added some smoke stacks and flying bridges to them – to simulate Japanese pre-dreadnought ships.
2009 August 21 « Third Point of Singularity
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Ships of War, "round" and "long"; trireme; penteconter; liburna; galley; dromon; galleas; junk; Viking craft; galleon; two and three-deckers; steam; submarine; destroyer; battle cruiser; dreadnought
A History of Sea Power
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Any story where a space-pirate wielding a space-axe could chop through a ray-shielded space-airlock, kidnap a beautiful space-princess and escape in a space-superdreadnought over a mile long, destroying at least one or perhaps two planets during the resulting space-battle, without this seeming in any particular out of place with the scale, scope, drive or moral code portrayed in the rest of the story, then the story is a Space Opera.
SF Tidbits for 10/2/06
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Hiatt's eponymous Gibson dreadnought buzzed and untuned itself throughout the two-hour performance, which added a rock-and-roll edge to the unplugged affair.
In concert: Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt at the Birchmere
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Queen Elizabeth might do it, but how likely was it that the Admiralty would permit the prize superdreadnought to be exposed to the dangers involved in entering the Sea of Marmara?
Castles of Steel
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The Spy" by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott is a wonderfully written and historically fascinating espionage novel set in pre-World War I America, in which our hero, Isaac Bell a characteristically brilliant and strong Yale man, stops a slew of Japanese, German and English spies who are trying to break America's secret program to build the most powerful dreadnought battleships and control the world's waters.
Twelve Months of Reading
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The superdreadnought Chicago, as she approached the imaginary but nevertheless sharply defined boundary, which no other ship had been allowed to pang, went inert and crept forward, mile by mile.
First Lensman
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Above: South Shore terminus with four Dreadnoughts in line abreast, demonstrating their legendary capacity to absorb crowds.
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The "dreadnought" body style was one of these triumphs; it included a larger, deeper body that provided more volume and bass resonance.
Five Great Depression Success Stories
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When it lunged out of the cloudbank the dreadnought's gunners had only a few seconds to fire and the one shell that hit bounced off the cruiser's streamlined hull.
Sun of Suns
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Instead, for political reasons, he got dreadnoughts - which were then stationed near home.
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I love the pre-dreadnought era of naval history, with its giant flaring brass ventilator shafts, underpowered guns, white paint and coal funnels.
2010 March 30 « Third Point of Singularity
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Under the command of Admiral Firmus Piett from the Star Dreadnought Executor, the Imperial fleet engaged the Rebels in an effort to annihilate them once and for all.
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To calm the First Sea Lord, Churchill immediately agreed to bring the superdreadnought home and to replace her at the Dardanelles with new monitors carrying 14-inch guns.
Castles of Steel
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Kentucky hunters, of the true "dreadnought" stamp.
Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains
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In addition to these vessels, Congress authorized seven dreadnoughts in 1916 and seven fast battleships in 1940, none of which was finished.
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The boneheads, after being taken through a superdreadnought and through a library by Lensmen as telepathic as themselves, capitulated to Civilization immediately and whole-heartedly.
Masters Of The Vortex
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The Admiralty placed its faith in dreadnoughts and Britain's traditional naval ships - and this, to a great extent, did not include submarines.
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A previously unknown letter has surfaced, detailing the "shriekingly funny" Dreadnought hoax of 7 February 1910, when members of the Bloomsbury group of writers and artists donned beards and costumes to disguise themselves as Abyssinian princes and gained access to the pride of the British naval fleet.
How a bearded Virginia Woolf and her band of 'jolly savages' hoaxed the navy
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Six and a half years into his premiership, after seven Queen's speeches, umpteen reshuffles and relaunches, the New Labour Dreadnought is listing, its gallant captain beginning to look his 50 years.
