shipborne
adjective
ship·borne
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Definition of shipborne
: transported or designed to be transported by ship
shipborne aircraft
Examples of shipborne in a Sentence
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With everything from notable partnerships between James Beard and Windstar and Thomas Keller on Seaborne, the offerings tend to be shipborne. — Peter Jon Lindberg, Condé Nast Traveler, "With S.A.L.T., Silversea Is Completely Rewriting How Cruises Do Food," 18 July 2019 By 2011, when Perovich met Webster on a shipborne experiment, climate change had reduced the summertime Arctic's frozen area by half. — Anchorage Daily News, "For the biggest Arctic expedition ever, scientists will trap themselves in sea ice," 13 June 2019 The shipborne rolling vertical landing will allow F-35Bs to land on the U.K.’s new carriers with larger payloads, eliminating the need to jettison expensive stores just to land on ships. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, "U.K. F-35s Will Use Strange Rolling Carrier Landings," 16 Oct. 2018 Her mother died of a shipborne illness on the long passage over the Atlantic in 1840. — Rachel Syme, New Republic, "Why Margaret Atwood’s “Alias Grace” makes subversive television.," 3 Nov. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'shipborne.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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