minesweeper - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • build: HMS Bangor was a " Bangor Class " minesweeper built at Govan by Harland & Wolff.
  • include: The three Classes: Class A: comprised the Navy, including minesweepers and dockyard officials, and troops at the Front in France.
  • command: He was then sent to command the minesweepers based at Singapore for part of 1946.
  • base: He was then sent to command the minesweepers based at Singapore for part of 1946.
  • sink: Sank the minesweepers, Behrens and C Jansen in the Kattegat, and possibly damaged a merchant vessel of 7,500 tons in the Skagerrak.
  • have: I've had those Minesweeper cheats longer than this website's been around!

Adjective modifier

  • inshore: It was supplied in large numbers to the Royal Navy as a propulsion engine for inshore minesweepers.
  • coastal: PHOTO - Ron Bullock Two Kenya Naval patrol craft lead three Royal Navy coastal minesweepers into Mombasa.
  • German: Despite the late stage of the war, German minesweepers and raiding parties sortied from the Channel Islands and boldly attacked the port.
  • wooden: I thought that modern mines, along with advanced detection and hull technologies would have made the wooden minesweeper obsolete by now.
  • small: Well, one of the ships I went on was the H.M.S. Derby, which was a small minesweeper, a coal ship.
  • human: He also described how civilian porters were forced to act as human minesweepers, triggering landmines with their own bodies.

Modifies a noun

  • game: Solving the minesweeper game that you have on your computer.
  • FY: August 30 1938 Requisitioned by RN as minesweeper No. FY 567 and, in 1943, she was used as a boom defense vessel.

Noun used with modifier

  • fleet: As the convoy got closer to Malta another cruiser, nine destroyers, four fleet minesweepers and six minesweeping launches joined the escorting ships.

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