ocean liner
an oceangoing passenger ship, operating either as one unit of a regular scheduled service or as a cruise ship.
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How to use ocean liner in a sentence
Its disruptions have increased costs for shippers, who have to deal with the inefficiencies of leaving their ocean liners idling outside of packed ports.
Ports are a mess but shipping company profits are at record highs | Nicolás Rivero | September 18, 2021 | QuartzRecord numbers of ocean liners are waiting offshore for berths to unload their cargo.
Ports are a mess but shipping company profits are at record highs | Nicolás Rivero | September 18, 2021 | QuartzPut the pair out for a Super Bowl party, I will glom onto the snack like barnacle to an ocean liner.
Opposite is a red-brick monastery leaning like an ocean liner in the snow.
The economy is like an ocean liner that turns only very slowly.
The slender steel shell of an ocean liner is not constructed to resist the law of gravity acting on full five thousand tons.
The Pillar of Light | Louis TracyHis room was as well arranged as the stateroom of the captain on an ocean liner.
The Winning Touchdown | Lester ChadwickI thought again of the ocean liner plunging in the opposite direction, and what my father was thinking at that moment.
I Walked in Arden | Jack CrawfordAnd, after all, an ocean liner is from one point of view a retreat from the greater dangers of the streets of London.
The Book of This and That | Robert LyndYou might as well have tried to shove in the broadside of an ocean liner as to push against that foot.
The Depot Master | Joseph C. Lincoln
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